Post * xV58D — Curious Curator

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TIL about Snowflame, a DC villain that gains powers by doing a lot of cocaine.

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X0DLX TIL while the U.S. and France had similar per capita fatality rates in the 1990s, Americans today are three times as likely to die in a traffic crash

Gdw7 TIL Japan deployed 9,000+ fire balloons against the US in WW2. Japan’s citizens were informed of thousands of casualties and huge fires. In reality, less than 300 of the intercontinental balloons reached american, only 6 people died and most americans did not know they existed.

PxNO TIL that when you learn some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, then encounter that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it, is called The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

6E18W TIL New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine, published between 1935 and 1947, was the first American comic-book series to feature solely original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips and the first publication of the company that would become DC Comics

mxBLo TIL Robin Williams funded a scholarship at his alma mater, Juilliard, that saw a full-ride given to a student every two years. One of the people who won the award was future Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, who became the first person from her family to go to college