Post * d8EAZ — Curious Curator

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TIL if you are on most airlines (not all) and hear an announcement referencing "Jim Wilson", it's because there's a dead body on the plane

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dDXQK TIL that in a series of experiments in the 1950s, Solomon Asch asked a group of actors and a single test subject what the longest line was in a "vision test". The actors would intentionally answer incorrectly, causing the subject to also answer incorrectly, despite it being very obvious.

jNVBQ TIL, Plankton's computer wife Karen was named after Karen Hillenburg. Steven Hillenburg's wife

XEDXQ TIL that the oldest non-human primate of all time is Cheeta the Chimp, who lived to be 80 years. Becoming famous as one of Tarzan's sidekicks in the 1930s-1960s, Cheeta went on to live a happy life as an Ambassador, also playing piano and painting.

OGZo1 TIL that after John Lennon's murder, Keith Richards, who was a few miles south of the Dakota at the time, got his own gun and was searching through the streets for the killer

5g4r TIL that Bagpipes, haggis, kilts, whisky and tartan all originate from outside of Scotland