Post * XVjE — Curious Curator

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TIL That Muse’ Matt Bellamy recorded his unborn babys hearbeat with his iphone and that is what you can hear at the start of the song “Follow me.”

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XnA6 TIL that cars, computers and printers are pampered, decorated and given some rest on the Hindu “Machine Worshiping Day”

jE6v TIL Arizona tea gallon jugs are flood filled and squeezed so that it is full to the cap so when they purify it with heat even the cap is decontaminated

KYWK9 TIL of dazzle camouflage on ships, which consisted of complex geometric shapes and patterns intended to disrupt the ship’s outline and thereby confuse the enemy on the trajectory of the ship

Wv6A TIL there’s a volcano in Indonesia that erupts with blue lava. Local men trek up the mountain daily to mine its sulfur - they carry loads of 180-200 pounds, but the sulfur only sells for only 2.5 cents/pound, so many men make the climb twice a day.

loox1 TIL that a "domino computer" was once constructed, that could add two three-bit inputs and produce a four-bit output. It was made of dominoes standing on end, and relied on timing and precise placement when they were knocked over.