Post * wg16 — Curious Curator

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TIL Bob Ross had several pet squirrels. He brought them on his show from time to time.

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AD0Kx TIL the 5 largest power stations in the world are all hydroelectric

QQ9 TIL that a massive 1km^3 particle detector sits under the South pole.

1Ber TIL Ken Jarecke’s iconic photo of the Gulf War is unknown in America because the AP office in New York censored it. They deemed it was too sensitive and too graphic even for the newspaper editors to see, not even to let them make the decision of what the market they served could see.

DNLV TIL that IBM leased punchcard machines for high fees to the Nazis that allowed them to catalog and identify the Jewish population via censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing

W7RjX TIL that in the 1970s head transplants were possible