Post * vPOQj — Curious Curator

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TIL Amedeo Avogadro's contribution to chemistry, known as Avogadro's law, did not initially receive much attention when he published his paper in 1811. It was only a century later that his work was recognized, when the King of Italy attended a meeting commemorating the paper's 100th anniversary.

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NX4bM TIL that as of August, 2022 there were over 2.8 million podcasts available online worldwide with over 135 million episodes in total.

5Y1LQ TIL that in 1967, the Tax Court of the United States ruled, over IRS protests, that catching a baseball one‐handed was so remarkable and valuable a technique that a player was justified in deducting as a business expense a cash payment to his father as compensation for teaching him

Pv6O TIL part of the reasons for Disneyland’s grand opening disaster was the counterfeit tickets, as 28,154 guests passed through the park’s gates with such tickets. It was supposed to be 15,000 on invitation-only.

gMZbL TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."

9Bb6 TIL the Super Bowl has required national anthem vocals to be pre-recorded since 1993 when Garth Brooks declined to pre-record and then refused to sing live until a dispute over debuting a music video during the game could be settled, resulting in a delayed kickoff.