Post * Oo0Q1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book about a 4 man ship crew that ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker. In 1884 a 4 man ship crew ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker.

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78r5Z TIL that the sun actually puts off white light and it only looks yellow to us because of our atmosphere scattering blue light away (which is why the sky looks blue)

kOlE4 TIL the Korean Gong clan of Qufu, their ancestors was Confucius. there are 7.4K members in Korea (According to the research held in 2000), including some famous Kpop and Kdrama stars

7eXM TIL that General Patton had a years long affair with his niece starting when she was 17 and continuing on through WWII

YraW TIL After Russia outlawed virtually all gambling in 2009. A Russian engineer learned how to cheat slot machines. He took his knowledge to the US and won $21,000. Casinos still have no fix for it.

BrgAW TIL Alberto Brandolini, a programmer from Italy, in 2013 formulated the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle aka Brandolini's law which states: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it”. It highlights the difficulty of debunking bullshit.