Post * mXgR — Curious Curator

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TIL astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called “wet burping”

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j6noa TIL that in 1989, a man bought a painting for $4 at a flea market and discovered an original copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden behind it.

jNwNE TIL that though the term has become genericized, “Seeing Eye dog” is a registered trademark reserved for guide dogs trained by The Seeing Eye, Inc., the oldest existing guide dog school in the world.

bZpa TIL teleportation was used in Star Trek because the budget didn’t allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets

RJR1 TIL During WWII the Russians had their own independently developed “Jeep”, but because the Americans sent so many Jeeps to help, the Russians turned their own Jeeps into thousands of little armored cars. They were surprisingly successful and widely exported after the war.

Wk9L9 TIL that Disneyland is home to dozens of feral cats that Disney captured, spayed and neutered, then rereleased to control the rodent population.