Post * kl6e — Curious Curator

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TIL Snoopy, the Peanuts Comic Strip character is NASA’s Official astronauts’ personal safety mascot.

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MvB0 TIL Joe Pesci’s Oscar acceptance speech is one of the shortest of all time at 5 words. He said: “It’s my privilege. Thank you.”

ZDPG TIL most train horns are based on musical chords. Common passenger trains found in the U.S. are usually based on maj6th chords, which are not as threatening as most freight trains, which are based on more dissonant, frightening , such as diminished 7th chords

Z1Ao TIL that the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (now extinct) was male. It’s song was recorded in 1987. It was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. It died in 1987 as well.

D87V TIL that human saliva contains natural painkiller which is nearly six times more potent than morphine.

wLDvJ TIL that after the pandemic began, many investors purchased the wrong Zoom stock, getting shares in a defunct Chinese hardware company, instead of the calling app, Zoom Video Communications. This meant that the wrong Zoom stock price soared by 1800% before the SEC stepped in.