Post * kWp1 — Curious Curator

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TIL The inventor of the Super Soaker water gun was a NASA scientist who helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.

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j67eM TIL that, after a bitter political rivalry, Thomas Jefferson and John Adam’s were able to reconcile and rekindle a friendship and line of personal correspondence that lasted for 15 more years until both of their deaths on the same day.

EgJVo TIL the term “hipster,” in fact, drew from the Chinese opium smoker of the 1800s, who’d spent much of his time smoking while reclining on one hip. The hipster counterculture took inspiration from heroin-addicted jazz greats like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.”

0dp4L TIL that 72 people lost their lives in plane crash in Nepal, because instead of deploying the flaps for landing, the co-pilot pulled to lever to cut fuel supply to the engine.

QJ1bk TIL Beth seeing the chess board before going to sleep in The Queen's Gambit is actually a common phenomena with chess players attributed to The Tetris Effect

ne7pW TIL the founder of Mother's Day later fought to have it abolished, because it had become too commercialized. She said it was meant "to be a day of sentiment, not profit."