Post * j6Bwj — Curious Curator

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TIL Pink Floyd derived its name from the first names of two Blues players, and at the last minute

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gMJA8 TIL, that King George VI, Elizabeth II's father, was the first British Monarch to visit the U.S since the American Revolution

lvnK TIL that Louis Pasteur, the inventor of pasteurization, also went on to create vaccines for Rabies, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, and Smallpox.

ODv7 TIL that an international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.

m5YO TIL more people die descending Mt. Everest after they’ve made it to the top than during the ascent.

M7Ea TIL Nokia made a handheld game console in 2003, the N-Gage. In the first two weeks, Nokia claimed to have sold 400,000 units, but researchers later found they had only actually sold 5,800~ units in total.