Post * XErer — Curious Curator

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TIL if you put multiple out of phase metronomes on a movable surface, they will synchronize themselves according to what is called a Kuramoto model of synchronization

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MX6B TIL that the fibonacci sequence can be used to roughly convert between miles and kilometers. If the nth term is a number of miles, the nth+1 term is roughly how many kilometers it is.

0Qpv TIL of Butler’s café , a butler themed cafe in Tokyo. According to the owner, Japanese women “want a cafe where the waiters [are] male, good-looking, will treat them nice, but most importantly [are] Western.” Butler’s café “is the sole cafe hiring only foreign men as staff.”

89b4 TIL an officer in the American Civil War, Benjamin Runkle, was mistakenly left for dead on the battlefield. An obituary was written for him while he was still alive, but ironically Runkle outlived the man who wrote it, and in return wrote an obituary for his obituary writer

XExbQ TIL In 1963, the Bronx Zoo had an exhibition called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World." It was a mirror.

j68pp TIL about a documentary called Titicut Follies, directed by Frederick Wiseman. The documentary took a look at the conditions inside Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. In 1967, a judge issued an injunction that prohibited the film from being shown to the public.