Post * XEkar — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jerry van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick van Dyke, was offered the lead role in Gilligan's Island but accepted a role in My Mother the Car instead. This show, about a man whose dead mother is reincarnated as a car, ended after one season and is considered among the worst shows ever made.

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Pk4n TIL that despite dying in 1976, billionaire Howard Hughes (THE AVIATOR) had no living will and his estate was not fully dispersed until 2010, 34 years later

QBnL TIL a group got instructions to sleep as long as they wanted, their cortisol started to rise at 8, and woke up at 9. Another group was said they’d wake up at 6, and their CRH and cortisol rose at 5. Just their expectations of waking time changed the behaviour of stress hormones.

M7Xga TIL: Helium is generated by radioactive decay, is a non-renewable resource, physically escapes into space, is used in applications such as MRIs, breathing mixtures and welding gas, and has no substitute.

kOBke TIL Forty years ago, a prominent designer received a call from an undergrad architecture student who told him that a design flaw in his 59-story Manhattan skyscraper could cause it to collapse during a storm. Initially he scoffed, then disturbingly, figured that she was right...

BgXoe TIL an early Fax machine was demonstrated at the 1851 World's fair and the first commercial telefax service was in 1865, 11 years before the telephone.