Post * wo6vP — Curious Curator

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TIL the estimate for number of stars in the observable universe is not one per grain of sand on all the beaches in the world - astronomers estimate there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on every beach in the world.

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XDmr TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.

nWa0d TIL That, as of 2016, the video of the on air suicide of Christine Chubbuck still existed and was in the possession of the widow of the late TV station owner Chubbuck had worked at. The video has not been seen since 1974.

yQBVl TIL our sun only produces 1W of power for every 5 tons of mass

Y677 TIL there were no red M&Ms for over a decade because a common red food coloring was found to cause cancer. M&Ms never contained the cancer causing FD&C Red No. 2, but Mars still pulled all their red candies to avoid consumer confusion.

9wWXX TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.