Post * X0KX6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the cofounders of Activision created a joke game for the Atari 2600 where the only gameplay was raising and lowering Venetian blinds on a window. The game was a reference to a lawsuit between Atari and Activision over the use of the "Venetian blind" coding technique.

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nePDd TIL the only king to defeat All three armies of Mongols was Alauddin khilji. Thus saving Hinduism, languages, culture and cuisine of india.

5YWAp TIL about Indian Head Rock...an 8-ton boulder that was taken from a river between Ohio & Kentucky that led to a legal fight between the two states.

R7kJQ TIL: Trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War Chester Puller Stated, "We’ve been looking for the enemy for several days now. We’ve finally found them. We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of finding these people and killing them." He and his men survived.

R75rw There is a spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web.

PYxwO TIL In Okinawa, Japan, a place where the average life expectancy for women is around 90, the oldest in the world, people form a kind of social network called a moai — a group of five friends who offer social, logistic, emotional and even financial support for a lifetime.