Post * m1LdM — Curious Curator

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TIL that in the Victorian era, many people took photos with their dead relatives

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VMY6G TIL: White people are only 6.5% of the world’s population

J95B TIL: VLC Media Player uses a traffic cone as it’s logo because the students who had created the program had a traffic cone collection

WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."

dNp7 TIL The simple act of a surgical team stopping to answer a set of 19 questions such as “Do we have the right patient?” and “What operation are we performing?” has been proven to reduce deaths by more than 40% and complications by one third.

VMp5Z TIL that the Earth would have to turn once every 84 minutes or 17 times faster than the current speed in order for humans to be thrown off the planet, when the centrifugal force would be bigger than the force of gravity that holds us "down".