Post * nexmB — Curious Curator

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TIL American Airlines saved $40k a year by removing one olive from each food tray in first class

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KO6dG TIL Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, wanted to coat the disks of his 1988 game Snatcher in a paint that would smell like blood when heated in the computer, to recreate the smell of a murder scene

Rjrw TIL that divers in the Dead Sea have to carry 90 pounds of weight to lower their buoyancy so they can descend

xMpk TIL a group of Scientists have discovered that cheese contains a protein that the human body recognizes in a fashion similar to addictive drugs, called “casomorphins,” or “casein-derived morphine-like compounds,” prompting one researcher to refer to cheese as “dairy crack.”

EgJdx TIL that rats are not allowed to settle in Alberta - Canada by the Government of Alberta. They have an active Rat Control Program to protect against rat invasions of their territory.

wL6BE TIL that elements within the Japanese Imperial Navy originally planned to assassinate British entertainer Charlie Chaplin during his visit with the Japanese PM in order to provoke a war with the US but Chaplin was not present when the PM was killed.