Post * nWvaG — Curious Curator

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TIL that the average Texan pays more taxes than they would in California.

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X1N6 TIL: Not all snow flakes are symmetrical: “Despite what Wilson Bentley’s old photographs would have us believe, most snowflakes are not symmetrical. Wilson Bentley only photographed the pretty ones. In fact, 99% of snow flakes are downright ugly

VMOLm TIL that the sound of the sand people in Star Wars, or Tusken Raiders was made by deepening and varying the speed of braying donkeys.

wLp11 TIL about kubaba a Mesopotamian bartender who later became the first woman ruler in history.

kJOZm TIL of “Nobel Disease”, a tendency for Nobel Prize winners to adopt pseudoscientific ideas later in life

AJjl TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but this idea was scrapped after it was thought to be too upsetting to the audience.