Post * v1O4 — Curious Curator

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TIL A man in China used 50 years to hand-carve 6000 steps into the mountainside so that his wife could have an easier walk.

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klyW TIL Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.

XEb5R TIL Tarzan wasn’t raised by apes, but by a fictional species of ape-like beings who have their own language.

980M TIL that there is so much coffee in Seattle that there is a measurable caffeine content in the Pacific Northwest’s waters.

R5oO4 TIL The "two-fingered salute" with an inward facing palm has long been an insulting gesture in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. George H W Bush once accidentally used the insulting gesture in Australia, mistaking it for the "peace sign" (palm facing outwards).

LkpZv TIL The cosmic-radiation dose rate on airplanes is so high that airline flight crew workers receive more dose on average than any other worker, including those in nuclear power plants.