Post * neNgr — Curious Curator

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TIL if an expensive watch makes an easily audible ticking noise, it's most likely fake.

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0dQaM TIL that Indigenous tribes in North America made some of the first root-based teas, which later inspired root beer. Pharmacist Charles Hires found a tea, recreated it, and renamed it 'root beer' to make it more masculine and appealing to local coal miners.

Wk9AL TIL when Stanley Kubrick asked Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters to use elements of the Atom Heart Mother suite, Waters refused because Kubrick wanted to cut the piece to fit the film. Later, when Waters asked Kubrick if he could use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick duly refused.

l7Bpa TIL: In 1965, Heinz Holzapfel, his wife Jutta and son, fled the communist east Berlin ziplining from a government building over the Berlin Wall.

nR6b TIL that West Germany fully decriminalised homosexual acts between males only in 1994 after criminal law needed reconciliation with law in East Germany, where it had been decriminalised since 1968

x8X7 TIL that the definition of 1 second is; 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the standard Cesium-133 atom. The bases for Atomic Clocks