Post * eadJ — Curious Curator

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TIL according to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.

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Ypaad TIL that the world's first hard drive was larger than a refrigerator and could hold only 5 MB of storage

woOKY TIL of "Historia Piscium," a book about fishes published in 1686 by the Royal Society. The book sold so poorly that the Society reneged on funding Isaac Newton's "Principia". Clerk Edmund Halley funded Principia himself; the Society later paid him with unsold copies of Historia

aK5A TIL A Michigan rock collector found an impressive 93 lb. Petoskey stone in Lake Michigan in 2015, only to have it promptly confiscated by authorities. The stone violated a Michigan law that states no more than 25 pounds of rocks or minerals can be taken from the Great Lakes per year.

kav7 TIL Chick-Fil-A is suing a Vermont man for printing shirts that say ‘Eat More Kale’ because it is too similar to their 'Eat Mor Chikin’ slogan

8aLO4 TIL Superman fought the Ku Klux Klan because Stetson Kennedy wanted to expose the Klan after infiltrating them, the authorities weren't interested but the writers of Superman were willing to write it as a new plotline for Superman, which eventually caused the Klan's influence to fizzle out.