Post * VME8m — Curious Curator

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TIL cars featured in commercials and movies are typically CGI

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OGom4 TIL Fast food chain Burger Chef pioneered kids' meals that included toys in the early 1970s, with their Funmeals, they later unsuccessfully sued McDonald's after the introduction of the Happy Meal in 1979

Eg9ew TIL that, if a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound is a philosophical experiment around consciousness.

0dA95 TIL a man in Thailand embedded magnetic plates in his fingertips in order to cheat at Hi-Lo, an Asian variant game of dice.

4kb0J TIL about the Cobra effect, referring to a time in the British Raj when people were offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Soon, ppl started breeding cobras for a reward which in turn forced the government to stop the rewards. In response, people released their captive cobras into the wild.

gJG7 TIL that in 1967 the London Bridge, built in the 1830’s and spanned the River Thames, was taken apart and the bricks were numbered to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu, Arizona.