Post * Zwdp — Curious Curator

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TIL that gifs would load ~8 times faster if we converted them all to HTML5 video

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91O6 TIL a flight attendant named Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 ft fall when the plane she was in broke apart from a bomb explosion. She holds a Guinness World Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute

MmN0 TIL newborn babies can support their own weight for up to two minutes when hanging from a bar. This was discovered by a man named Dr Robinson in the late 1800’s, when he made 60 babies dangle from a walking-stick.

6E48m TIL that the steady increase in sales and popularity of bacon in the United States since 2011 has been referred to as "Bacon Mania" with 65% of Americans supporting making bacon their "national food"

EJn7 TIL A female ninja is called kunoichi, which means “nine plus one.” This refers to the nine holes possessed by men, and the kunoichi’s mastery of the tenth

vPKe4 TIL If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.