Post * PZ8L — Curious Curator

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TIL that those two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen- this helps the ink flow to the tip.

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8YrZ TIL that ‘hella’ was a proposed SI prefix for one octillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).

awPPy TIL that New Zealand was founded on May 7, 1856.

9YQaQ TIL: There is a hotel in Minehead, UK called the Foxes Hotel that has an all disability staff and teaches them skills of trade for them to use when they get jobs in the real world.

xV7J0 TIL Spain's newest submarine was 75+ tons heavier than expected because someone put a decimal point in the wrong place. It could go down, but might not come up again.

R7yNw TIL that Agatha Christie wrote the final Hercule Poirot book "Curtain" in the 1940s, fearing she might die during the blitz and leave the book series without a proper ending. She kept writing more books after that, and once she decided she was done "Curtain" was finally published in 1975.