Post * neB4G — Curious Curator

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TIL that IBM made bombsights, rifles and engine parts during WWII

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n5RG TIL there’s a giant underground cavern in Japan filled with distilled water and light sensors, used to detect subatomic particles called neutrinos.

wLnp6 TIL A recent report found the average cost of groceries for a family of four in Nunavut is $19,760 per year while almost half of Inuit adults earn less than $20,000 annually

1OrD TIL that Vasily Zaytsev, a Soviet sniper with over 242 confirmed kills and 500 rumoured kills, became so good at shooting due to his peasant childhood; his family was too poor to afford many bullets, and hence he was forced to learn to take one shot per animal.

7rZZ7 TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 1700s, had an endless appetite due to unknown causes. In one case, he ate 15 meals in a single sitting, and his endless hunger led him, while in a hospital, to eat piles of garbage, as well as trying to drink other patients blood and eat corpses from the morgue.

Z8OVQ TIL that German cars have an option to turn parking lights on only on one side (towards the road) to make parking safer on narrow European streets in the dark whilst consuming half the power.