Post * oRZgK — Curious Curator

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TIL - That the US has 34 metric tons of plutonium bomb cores left over from the Cold War that are being kept at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.

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Y1QG TIL: An early draft of Charlie and the Chocolate factory featured a sixth child, Miranda Piker, and she met her untimely demise when she was ground into powder by one of Willy Wonka’s candy machines after refusing to listen to him.

Z88oa TIL the velociraptors from Jurassic Park were actually suits worn by actors, and not an animatronic or CGI.

6mWJ TIL that when our brains are tired, they are capable of thinking more creatively than when they are not tired.

nejQB TIL When Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, died in 1982, the show had an episode where Mr. Hooper died. The writers extensively researched how to teach young kids about death. The episode aired on Thanksgiving 1983 so parents were home to discuss it with their kids. It never reran.

nb0Y TIL there is a 82 foot tall aquarium that holds more than 1,500 fish and has a glass elevator that runs up and down the center of the tank. It has to be cleaned by divers, three or four times each day. The German AquaDom is the largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium in the world