Post * k4je — Curious Curator

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TIL that the worst school mass murder in U.S. history was in Bath, Michigan in 1927, when Andrew Kehoe killed 45 people, 38 of whom were children at an elementary school.

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GY481 TIL that bats are one of the few animals that use a different tone of voice depending on which individual they're talking to.

kJodg TIL The films used for the Hasselblad cameras taken to the Moon were prepackaged in light-tight magazines that snapped onto the camera body. The Apollo 11 moonwalk made do with a single magazine without changing films outside at all

XE8yP TIL of Leona Woods, the only woman physicist on the team which built the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the Manhattan Project. She became a mother during the Project but hid her pregnancy as not to miss work. Afterwards as a professor, she authored >200 papers in physics and astrophysics.

DQwaJ TIL modern tests for high value old paintings search for carbon 14 isotopes, none of which existed in the world before the trinity nuclear tests of the 40’s. Any paintings containing this isotope are clearly from after the tests and thus, a forgery.

R7gM7 TIL Kim Dotcom discovered the feds were illegally spying on him after his Xbox ping went from 30 milliseconds to 180 milliseconds, indicating a third party connection.