Post * Xm0Q — Curious Curator

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TIL that Starbucks serve a smaller and cheaper size than “Tall” (called “Short”), but don’t show it on their menus.

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yL6l TIL that Nissan used the number 23 in racing because the number 2 translates to ni. And, the number 3 translates to san. 23 translates to ni-san.

x61dw TIL that in 1866, Mark Twain went surfing in Hawaii.

8eAka TIL the colour orange came first because oranges used to be green. Even today some are green in Thailand and Vietnam

bPJp TIL 17th century Dutch blacksmith Jan de Doot allegedly removed an egg-sized bladder stone from himself using a procedure called lithotomy in which one makes an incision between the scrotum and the anus and removes the offending stone. He then set it in gold.

kOV44 TIL of the Mean World syndrome, a cognitive bias where people perceive the world to be more dangerous than it actually is due to heavy exposure to violence-related content on mass media.