Post * dD7EZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that a sonic boom occurs because a jet is moving faster than the sound it is creating.

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5YrGk TIL Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeybees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT.

p8R9b TIL the Michael J. Fox movie "The Frighteners" was originally intended to be a "Tales From The Crypt" spin-off

VBNMG TIL Stephen King never cashed the $5,000 check that Frank Darabont paid him in 1987 for the rights to adapt his novella 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'. Eventually, King had the check framed and returned it to Darabont with a note that read, "In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve."

O1d7 TIL that in the 13th century AD a French monk compounded all human knowledge into a tome of 32 books and 3,718 chapters; ranging subjects from philosophy, biology & psychology to the minutest details of theology, such as the nature of how angels communicate.

QgOX TIL a psychiatrist argued that Anakin Skywalker is a useful example for explaining borderline personality disorder to medical students and hoped his findings would raise awareness of the disorder, especially among teens