Post * rAW — Curious Curator

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TIL that hippos secrete their own sunscreen

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wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.

KY8EJ TIL about the Human Death Spiral - the cycle of ultimately disasterous industrialization that filled the world with cars, which leads to sprawl that requires cars, which leads to even more cars, etc

p8oQO TIL that if you add 250 ml of water with 250ml of ethanol you get less than 500ml of liquid.

BgXGe TIL that in 2010, the remains of ship was found buried underneath the ruins of the Twin Towers.

KjrQ TIL the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 couldn’t afford the life insurance policy for an astronaut, so they hatched an alternate plan. Prior to their mission, the three signed hundreds of autographs while under quarantine for their families to sell if anything were to happen to them.