Post * rRplo — Curious Curator

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TIL Orwell's 1984 title likely came from a poem his wife Eileen wrote in HS called End of the Century, 1984

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woKGo TIL: France still doesn't recognise North Korea, along with Japan and South Korea.

7mXZ TIL learned that Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 but didn’t pursue it since film was their big moneymaker.

4kXyN TIL that owls have lopsided ears. The asymmetrical design allows them to pinpoint sounds more accurately in 3D space.

VBlQQ TIL: Soaking and Jump Humping are a Mormon sex work around where there is no thrust = not sex

K1xw TIL after a female pedestrian in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. He smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop.