Post * jJlp — Curious Curator

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TIL that Johnny Depp got matching tattoos with Damien Echols (an innocent man who spent 18 years on death row)

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Wex8 TIL that a double rod pendulum creates totally unpredictable trajectories, due to the ‘chaos theory’.

PRae TIL that a quarter of the US doesn’t have access to dependable broadband. They still use dial-up

0dZJ1 TIL according to the singer Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday), when he was born his father thought looked like “nine-and-a-half pounds of ground chuck” and nicknamed him "Meat". Years later, when he was a heavyset teenage football player, the players and coaches expanded the name to "Meat Loaf".

R709a TIL that Walmart's employees earn as much in a year as the CEO earns in an hour.

awQ7o TIL, after the French Revolution, the new French Government set a new means of keeping time. Days were made of 10 hours, each hour made of 100 minutes, each minute made of 100 seconds. It proved too difficult to keep for more than a decade.