Post * neXnB — Curious Curator

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TIL that only of the 12 people that walked on the moon, only four are still alive, and are now between 83 and 89 years old. It is likely that in the near future no living person will have walked on the moon.

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RGja TIL Tony Hawk was tested to have an I.Q. of 144 during school.

4X0w5 TIL that Facebook employs 15,000 content moderators to review some of the most disturbing content on the platform. Many of the moderators have been diagnosed with PTSD while others have reported believing in flat earth or holocaust denial after repeated exposure to the subjects.

eyeL TIL that German children are taught the dangers of misbehavior through traumatic stories. These include a child having his thumbs cut off for thumbsucking and a girl who burns to death for playing with matches

X05BQ TIL that 80 French parliamentarians voted against the Constitutional Law of 1940, which established the authoritarian rule of Philippe Pétain. They are known today as Les Quatre-Vingts (the Eighty or Vichy 80).

monv TIL that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn’t like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn’t like the “anti-consumerism” theme of the plot – and they didn’t like the music.