Post * oBrrL — Curious Curator

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TIL That people born blind use the same facial expressions as sighted people when expressing emotions, meaning that our facial expressions are innate and not learned behavior.

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JeRk TIL that Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee would go to theaters to watch Looney Tunes cartoons together and were once kicked out for laughing too hard

mwNE TIL there was a famous 18th century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His original name was Potatoes. Potatoes acquired the strange spelling of his nickname, Pot-8-Os, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it.

b9jO9 TIL that rubber, the material, got its name on 1770 when Joseph Priestley noted that a piece was extremely good for rubbing off pencil marks on paper.

gMg6A TIL the first TV reality show (An American Family) aired in 1973 on PBS and followed the Loud family: Bill, Pat, and their five children. This was nearly 20 years before Real World debuted on MTV.

6ElNl TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China