Post * ZpkRG — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, each starter has a 1 in 8,192 chance of being shiny, and you can see if it's shiny on the selection screen. All three being shiny at once is theoretically possible, but has never been recorded — the odds are 1 in 550 billion.

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ADy7w TIL that in 2015, a German court ruled that men have a right to pee while standing up, rejecting a landlord's claim that his marble floor had been ruined and leading to the creation of a new German word, "Sitzpinkler" (those who pee while sitting down).

6EKO7 TIL the Titanic isn't the largest passenger ship wreck on the sea floor. Its sister ship, the Brittanic, sank in WWI during its service as a hospital ship, after hitting a sea mine near Greece. 1035 survived while 30 people died, most from a lifeboat hitting the ship's propeller.

bVrj TIL 450 years ago King Charles V of Spain commissioned a mechanical monk, an automaton, to be made as thanks to God for saving his son. This is one of the first robots made by humans. It still works to this day

Ly59 TIL The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of an FBI sting operation. FBI agents secretly supplied informant Emad Salem with bomb making materials. Despite being assured by the FBI that the real bomb was replaced with a fake, the attack was successfully carried out.

kJaw7 TIL that Cracker Jack is considered by some food historians to be the first junk food. It was introduced in 1896 along with the slogan “The more you eat, the more you want.”