Post * pZXA — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Go-Go’s were the first, and to date only, all-female band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to have an album reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with their 1981 debut album “Beauty and a Beat”

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dNxj TIL a proposal and petition on the White House’s website to build a Death Star that earned 30K signatures. It would have cost $850 quadrillion, and take 833,000 years. The White House said, “the Administration does not support blowing up planets”

l79K7 TIL Americans are actually really stupid people, most of them think America is the world. Can’t name any other country and some can’t even point to where America is. Absolute joke of a country

4X5Mb TIL that, tired of teaspoons being stolen from the breakroom, a medical institute conducted a study on the rate of disappearance of the spoons. They concluded that "an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a practical institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons"

pLvA TIL Pentagon freaked out in the 1980s when they realized Finland had, against their expectations, managed to build two Mir submarines capable of diving to 6000 meters. They went on to shut down the whole Finnish submarine industry by privately threatening the country with heavy sanctions.

G9Xj TIL that TV commercials haven’t necessarily gotten quieter since the CALM Act (the TV commercial volume control law) went into effect last December, because it relies mostly on consumer complaints to the FCC to enforce the law. Link to submit those complaints included.