Post * b6n10 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the beauty brand ELF was not just named after Santa’s helpers, but actually stands for “eyes lips face.”

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5VAdr TIL that in 1975 Air France commissioned to French composer Franck Pourcel an anthem for their new supersonic plane, the Concorde

nWa5o TIL that Germany's first post WWII Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, invented among other things a soy sausage during WWI

4vQ5 TIL in the early nineteenth century, the United States had a hundred and forty-four separate time zones

JYddm TIL that "I Want to Break Free", a song by the British rock band Queen, known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in women's clothes which parodied the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, was considered controversial in the United States and banned by MTV.

woJn8 TIL astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.