Post * pYOXA — Curious Curator

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TIL that Fetty Wap lost his left eye before his first birthday, the result of congenital glaucoma.

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Zpv0o TIL that scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.

neowY TIL Companies will intentionaly alter the sounds of their products. For example, they will make a car engine sound louder as to make us think it is more powerful or make a vacuum cleaner louder to make us think it is sucking up more dirt and dust.

MeyJ8 TIL about Hayleigh Curtis, one of Cadbury's 10 taste testers. Her taste buds are so important that Cadbury got her tongue insured for 1.25 million dollars.

6EnEm TIL 'An American Family' is widely considered to be the first reality TV series, first airing on PBS in 1973. Over 300 hours of footage of the Loud family was condensed into 12, one hour episodes documenting family drama resulting from a separation of Bill and Pat Loud.

RPQ9 TIL that it’s impossible to obtain an original theatrical version of Star Wars. Every obtainable release has been altered in some way. Even some of the later theatrical releases in 1977 had changes made to them.