Post * R7Wya — Curious Curator

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TIL magenta doesn’t exist in nature. It’s created by the mind.

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Z8Lro TIL about the Ray Cat Solution, a way to keep future generations away from dangerous nuclear waste sites. The idea was to engineer a cat that changes colour in response to radiation — then create a culture around this cat so that if your cat changes colour, you should move someplace else.

Yprpv TIL that during the making of the Star Wars prequel films, Hayden Christensen had to be told be George Lucas to stop making lightsaber noises as they were filming battles.

N7BlP TIL of Fritz Suhren, a concentration camp commandant. When the allies were close, he took Odette Sansom, an inmate whom he believed to be Churchill's niece, and drove with her to the US base, hoping it would save him. She was in fact a British spy under a false name. He was hanged in 1950

9Ygrp TIL that there is a world war 2 shipwreck (SS Richard Montgomery) off the coast of England, with roughly 1500 tonnes of explosives onboard, that may or may not explode at some point.

YpBgP TIL of Pyura Chilensis, a sea creature from Chile that resembles a rock. It is born male and becomes hermaphroditic at puberty, and it’s clear blood contains high levels of the rare element vanadium. It tastes like iodine, sea urchin and soap.