Post * d8Kr — Curious Curator

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TIL That there is a readability statistic on Microsoft Word that grades you on how you write called the Flesch Kincaid readability test.

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dDDB8 TIL Apple simply chose to pay a $5.5 million fine every week for months in the Netherlands instead of obey orders from the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) to allow third-party payment systems in Dutch dating apps.

ep6xk TIL diabolical ironclad beetle - this beetle has one of the strongest exoskeletons of any insect, allowing it to withstand forces up to 39,000 times its body weight!

5YpV9 TIL Marilyn Monroe published an article in 1953 called "Wolves I Have Known", detailing the creepy harassment she received from photographers, producers and screen writers who tried to take advantage of new and aspiring actresses

lRk1 TIL Baby Boomers will transfer $30 trillion in inheritance to next generation.

xLr1 TIL a study at Duke University showed that male rhesus macaques will give up privileges to be allowed to see a female monkey’s ass: “Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters … they really value the images.”