Post * W7jX9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Talcum Powder (baby powder) is a Probable human carcinogen, the same classification as lead

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gMXVb TIL The wreck of Titanic's is disappearing at a rate that it's estimated to be completely gone in about 30 years. A microorganism called 'Halomonas titanicae' (also called the 'steel-munching bacteria') is slowly eating away the iron of the ships' wreck, causing its deterioration.

BrgZK TIL that a 25 MILLION FPS camera exists and uses mirrors to track target objects

0dvgM TIL there was a craze for emu meat in the early 90s and that a pair of emus sold for as high as $60,000 dollars before the market crashed.

1aY7P TIL that in the early 2000s iG, one of Brazil's largest web portals, decided to have a "Good News Day" to improve the perception of the media as bearer of bad news. The previous day, they annouced it would start on 9/11/2001. It only lasted a few hours.

yVbLa TIL that Able Archer 83 was a war exercise conducted by NATO that panicked the Soviets into thinking they were really being attacked and so nearly launched a nuclear retaliation in response; it is now considered to be the nearest that mankind went into nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis