Post * bnOa — Curious Curator

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TIL two of the key figures in creating Disneyland were Harrison Price and CV Wood. Their nicknames were Buzz and Woody.

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69Ynm TIL: That during World War II, the mathematician Oswald T. Avery discovered that DNA, not protein, carries genetic information. His work was initially ignored by the scientific community, but it later paved the way for the discovery of the DNA double helix.

JY6pj TIL In 2011, a Brazilian man found a penguin covered in oil and close to death. He nursed him back to health and since then the Penguin swims 3 to 5 thousand miles every year to spend time with his human soulmate.

4keKJ TIL about Panchiko, the Band With An Astounding Story. A group of British teenagers formed a band and recorded a demo CD-R in 2000 which is quickly forgotten about. Around fifteen years later, someone discovered a corrupted copy in a charity shop, and it became an online phenomenon. More in comment.

p8P44 TIL: 100 crew members of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion were scheduled to make its 1968 deployment. One sailor refused to go citing the sub’s dire need of maintenance. 99 sailors were killed when the sub sank in the Atlantic.

0d94v TIL about the case of Doe vs Moe in which a man sued his ex-girlfriend for negligence after she “landed awkwardly on the plaintiff [during sex] thereby causing him to suffer a penile fracture”. He lost.