Post * jdxQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that One World Trade Center makes strange eerie sounds when the wind passes, making New Yorkers believe it to be haunted by the victims of 9/11.

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0j9L TIL all humanity has a common (8000x) grandmother. An African woman who lived 200,000 years ago is the common maternal ancestor of all humans alive today.

BrbOr TIL that 1 in 3 middle aged men are affected by baldness on their lower legs. This pattern of hair loss is extremely common yet hardly studied. Leg crossing, trouser rubbing and friction have all been suggested as causes, but no study has demonstrated what the actual cause is.

xAno TIL civilians in a McDonald’s once seized control of a NASA satellite using old radio parts from eBay and a salvaged flat screen TV.

yVdgl TIL that in 1962 there was a laughing epidemic in what was Tanganyika that caused 14 schools to shut down and affected over 1000 people.

5VWwR TIL Japan has among the world’s strictest meat grading rules. Each carcass is graded on 4 characteristics, most important is “Beef Marbling Standard” (1-12). USDA Prime, the US's highest marbling grade, equates to about 4. Most domestic Wagyu or hybrids would score 6-9, while Kobe usually ranks 10+.