Post * P4xe — Curious Curator

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TIL that Starfish Prime was the largest man made nuclear explosion in outer space.

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rRNwM TIL iPhone users can rapidly press the power button five times to show a slider for calling emergency services.

WklJA TIL In 2019, a potato chip factory in Hong Kong found a World War I grenade in a shipment of French-grown potatoes, just as the potatoes were going through their processing machines.

woV96 TIL In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated to the United States

9jpr TIL of the Japan Air 123 accident, the deadliest single aircraft crash of all time. Crew could not control the plane so they used thrust to go up and down and differential trust to turn. It crashed after 32min. No simulation reconstruction held out as long as the crew did.

wL9GP TIL if you allow bacteria like E. coli to grow in food, you can cook the E. coli out but you can't cook out all the toxins they leave behind, which make you horribly sick after consumption.