Post * enWE — Curious Curator

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TIL that much more people used to dream in black and white, and this decreased with the arrival of colour TV.

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bx6E TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.

kL6g TIL that in the UK there is a high court judge known as Mr. Justice Mann

kJOBB TIL Hitler insisted on large, permanent sites for V-2 rocket launches. The largest of these sites was destroyed by RAF tallboy bombs before it was completed.

oBOX7 Today I learned that Tame Impala was accused of plagiarizing South American pop early 90s icon "Pablito Ruiz"

wLVro TIL four-legged animals like horses and dogs don't have backwards knees. Those joints are actually their ankles, which bend in the same direction as our ankles do.