Post * b9DD0 — Curious Curator

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TIL Soccer balls were originally black and white so they were easy to spot on television.

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Mepxb TIL: Squirrels are among the top causes of power outages across the U.S. In 2016 alone, utilities reported 3,456 outages caused by the ubiquitous rodents that cut off power to more than 193,873 customers.

ndWB TIL the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 let his son sit at the controls during a flight in 1994. His son turned off the autopilot controls, crashing the plane, and killing all 75 on board.

8a4jL TIL about a obscure Nickelodeon show from the 80s where each episode focused on a kid with physic powers called "The Third Eye"

rN0ww TIL that NASA’s computers for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 had less processing power than a modern smartphone. The guidance computer had only 64KB of memory and ran at 0.043 MHz.

D1Lbg TIL Nobel scientist James Watson was attracted to Harvard partly because it was a 'girl-containing university'. He employed research assistants and secretaries from the neighbouring women's Radcliffe College, before meeting his 19 year old wife and marrying the sophomore when he was 39