Post * VDRD — Curious Curator

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TIL Chicken used to be flavorful by itself, but we made it taste like nothing.

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XgVk TIL a ring given from mother to son in 1974 while she was dying from cancer was lost two weeks later while he was boating on the Cooper River, SC. 39 years later, a diver found the ring underwater and returned it to the man, who was in the hospital dying from cancer.

b9D4N TIL there's a near perfectly preserved 17th Century Swedish galleon in a Stockholm museum

D1xeg TIL when filming the Wolf of Wall Street, they brought in a real lion and the used cgi to remove the handler and add the office workers

OalX TIL the word hexadecimal should really be sexadecimal (proper latin) or hexadecadic (proper greek) but hexadecimal was used so that computer hackers wouldn’t abbreviate it as “sex”.

0K1R TIL each person has a “walking signature” that can be detected by their smartphone’s accelerometer data; the signature persists even if you change phones