Post * gd77 — Curious Curator

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TIL that NCAA player George Glamack (AKA “the Blind Bomber”) had such poor eyesight that he never looked where he was shooting. Instead, he looked at the black lines on the court to know where he was in reference to the basket and measured the shot. He scored the forth-highest total in UNC history.

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e00aJ TIL Nissan's GT Academy winners were banned from the 2013 British GT Championship because they were too fast thanks to playing the Gran Turismo video game

mxxMY TIL out of the 5 major nuclear powers (NPT): US, UK, France, Russia and China, only China has pledged a 'No First Use' policy whereas the other four have agreed to reserve the right to use nuclear first-strikes as defensive deterrents.

wrZ1 TIL Cards Against Humanity was released under a Creative Commons license, which allows people to download the game for free and print out their own deck, rather than having to buy it from a store.

6957W TIL: There is a system of units, Planck Units, for length, mass, time, and temperature based universal physical constants, such as the speed of light, rather than a choice of prototype object. It is mostly used in quantum mechanics.

X0odX TIL Jack Coe, one of the first modern faith healers, claimed a child was cured of polio and demanded parents remove his braces, causing the child extreme medical issues. Was criminally charged w/ practicing medicine w/o a license but judge dismissed case. Coe died of polio shortly after at 38 y.o.