Post * n5RG — Curious Curator

› added 9 years ago

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TIL there’s a giant underground cavern in Japan filled with distilled water and light sensors, used to detect subatomic particles called neutrinos.

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WQa9 TIL there is a phone booth sitting in the Mojave desert. It’s number is 760-733-9969 and if you call the number you will be ringed into a conference of other people.

D1VYJ TIL that the FBI supported a radical right-wing organization called the Secret Army Organization that violently attacked anti-war protesters and other left-wing groups

MQLW TIL The Economist has an indicator of the purchasing power of a country measured in how many Big Macs could be bought in that country with $50 USD - The Big Mac Index.

P0pG TIL the world population went from 3 billion to 7 billion in 50 years

OoJDL TIL that Japanese scientists had cultivated enough CowPox to infect all the people in the United States and were ready to deploy it via ocean crossing balloons which had already delivered bombs but Emperor Hirohito did not permit it.