Post * VwmZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that the pistol shrimp has a claw that when it snaps shut creates a pressure wave and momentarily reaches the temperature of the sun.

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1a5j7 TIL of 'Soy Cuba' (I Am Cuba), a 1964 Soviet-directed propaganda film that backfired by making capitalism look too appealing. It was later rediscovered by Hollywood, and its groundbreaking film techniques inspired scenes in Goodfellas and Boogie Nights.

VM1J8 TIL of the 'Cannonball Run.' An illegal road race from New York to Los Angeles held five times during the 1970's. The record time was 32 hrs and 51 minutes.

rRgEW TIL, when actor Heinrich Schmieder, who in the movie “Downfall” played Hitler’s bodyguard, Oberscharführer Rochus Misch, died in 2004, the real Misch was still alive and would live nine more years

ZEp TIL that despite rising US government spending on the Drug War, opiate production has increased by 380%, Heroin has gotten cheaper and more potent, Crystal Meth and Oxycodone abuse has exploded, and the HIV pandemic has accelerated in underground environments like prison

QJY19 TIL that humans and our livestock account for 96% of all mammal biomass on Earth