Post * nrlr — Curious Curator

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TIL that if you put grapes into the microwave it creates plasma.

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KYjGR TIL that Caravaggio was also a notorious criminal. He went to trial at least 11 times for things like writing libelous poems, throwing a plate of artichokes at a waiter and assaulting people with swords. He eventually fled Rome to escape punishment for killing a man and died in exile.

rNW6w TIL: Children with a foreign mother are four times more likely than other children in Norway to be forcibly taken from their families and the number of children taken into emergency care rose by 50% in just 5 years with the commonest reason for a care order nowbeing simply "lack of parenting skills"

LQjPm TIL that In 2003, during Belgium's elections, an unexpected anomaly occurred: one candidate received 4,096 extra votes. Investigations revealed that a cosmic ray had likely struck the computer system, causing a bit flip—a phenomenon where a binary digit changes state, leading to computational error

4Po6 TIL the flags of Monaco, Indonesia, Alsace, Vienna, Salzburg, Hesse, and the Swiss canton of Solothurn are essentially identical, differing only in proportion.

XEQ6Q TIL North Preston, Nova Scotia is the oldest and largest indigenous Black community in Canada.