Post * rNL14 — Curious Curator

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TIL about doodle grids -- a method for scaling up artwork without a traditional grid.

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p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity

JObm TIL that Yhprum’s Law, which is the ananym of Murphy’s Law, states that “Everything, that can work, will work.” In other words, “Sometimes systems that should not work, work nevertheless.”

oRnnR TIL that Houdini, the escape artist, worked as a spy for Scotland Yard. In the early 1900s, he infiltrated and spied on the German police, sending reports back to a British spymaster named William Melville. In exchange, Melville made sure that Houdini's career as an entertainer took off in London.

ZjJ4 TIL Bob Marley could have halted the spred of his cancer but refused to have his toe amputated for religious reasons

loWrK TIL that Disney refused a grieving father’s request to put a Spider-Man sticker on the tombstone of his son that died from a rare genetic disorder