Post * newXW — Curious Curator

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TIL: Teams that disagree more perform better than those which do not

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wLmrE TIL that wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake since the wood is flexible and will have large survival voids. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks and cause more injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

BgJkr TIL the song "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was intended to be recorded once with a stutter and sent as a joke to the lead singer's brother. Initially used to set up the band's equipment properly, the song was only added to the record because the eight tracks they had lacked the "magic".

GA9E TIL of the Holodomor, the man made famine inflicted upon the Ukrainians by the Soviets in 1932/33. Western governments ignored it due to the desire to gain the Soviets as an ally in trade and war. By the 1937 census, 11,000,000 Ukrainians were no longer present. Some left, but most starved to death.

8e9RP TIL South American river turtles talk in their eggs. Research has found that turtles communicate at extremely low frequency that sounds like “clicks, clucks, and hoots” that can only be heard through ahydrophone (a microphone used underwater). These sounds even come from the egg before they hatch.

4lGJ TIL that when Ian McKellen, the actor who went on to play both Magneto and Gandalf, came out as gay in the ’80s, his aim was to get rid of a law in the UK called Section 28.