Post * xLkB — Curious Curator

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TIL Russia built and flew a nuclear powered bomber that killed its own crew by lack of radioactive shielding.

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xV7gg TIL During the Cold War the US considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” onto the Soviets, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.

8e1LL TIL that tapping your legs to the beat of music involuntarily is a natural thing and it's because of a phenomenon called entrainment

lokoV TIL that there have been 4 instances in Major League Baseball history in which a player was traded for himself

0wVLM TIL that natural gas was discovered serendipitously around 500 BC in China. Bamboo pipelines were used to transport the gas, which was used to boil salt water to extract salt.

nxP9 TIL Pixar’s animation department originally created water that was “too real” when producing “Finding Nemo”