Post * oBj0K — Curious Curator

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TIL about a real, legitimate religion called pastafarianism or the church of the flying spaghetti monster.

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vPGVj TIL: Mrs. Watanabe is a collection of thousands of Japanese housewives who invest while at home. In the early 2000s, they achieved cult status worldwide as investing gurus by using Forex to exchange yen for other currencies, causing a noticeable impact on global currency markets.

b9bJQ TIL that Daylight Saving Time was invented by a guy who wanted more time after work to collect insects for his collection

j61Gn TIL about "Slack Fill" lawsuits, suits aimed at food companies for packing their food only a fraction of the each container's capacity. Most of these are class-action suits and the majority of the U.S. suits are filed from Northern California. In fact lawyers call San Francisco the "Food Court".

EQbW TIL that when Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders, he discovered that the processor lag reduced greatly with fewer Invaders on the screen. Rather than compensate, he left it as is; potentially inventing incremental difficulty in video games.

KObNa TIL about the “Rule of Thirds,” which is a technique used in film and photography that divides the frame into a 3x3 grid, and focuses elements of the frame at the intersecting points on the grid, where our eyes find them most pleasing, and makes the image more comfortable to look at.