Post * xVwkB — Curious Curator

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TIL about the Military Entertainment Complex - a branch of the DoD that consults on movies and provides accurate equipment

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X0GZr TIL the sky looks blue because gases and particles in the air scatter light from the sun and shorter blue wavelength light is scattered more than other wavelengths, so we see more of the blue than other colors. Sunsets are more atmosphere scattering most of the blue so you see more reds and yellows

D1y1V TIL from 1917 to 1918 British Intelligence paid an Italian journalist the modern equivalent of £6,000 (US$ 8,290) per week to keep up the pro-war campaigning. The cash got him a start in politics, and was also allegedly lavished on his many mistresses. The journalist was 34-year-old Benito Mussolini

904Q TIL that If you could hold your mother’s hand and she could hold her mother’s hand and so on and so forth, all standing in a straight line, the point where we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees would be only 300 miles away.

NvbM TIL that California now requires that jurors be explicitly told that a rape conviction can be based on the accuser’s testimony alone, without corroboration.

l7jRB TIL that the Faber-Castell pencil company was founded in 1761, and is one of the world's oldest industrial companies and has been run by the same family for nine generations!