Post * QNZyk — Curious Curator

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TIL Sony sold its waterproof Walkmans in a bottle of water to prove it was really water proof!

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nYjW TIL of The Man Who Never Was. In 1943, a British Major’s body was found with papers detailing an upcoming attack against the Nazis in Greece. However, the Major never existed. It was a homeless man’s body planted with fake papers so the real attack on Sicily could take place with little resistance.

7nJO TIL that after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in an airplane crash in 1950, Stalin’s son Vasily, the manager of the team, covered up the disaster and replaced everyone on the team to avoid his father’s wrath. Stalin never noticed.

5VaLP TIL that when Farscape aired in 1999 it was one of the most expensive TV shows ever made outside the US. It was filmed entirely in Australia and featured puppetry from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

7OE7 TIL: Graffiti is Plural. Graffito is the singular form

0byp TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: “That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case.”