Post * xm7o — Curious Curator

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TIL the standard diameter of a CD is 12cm because it must hold all of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.

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D16vv TIL that the hexagonally shaped mirror segments of the James Webb telescope can each move 1/10,000th the diameter of a human hair in order to accurately focus on deep space.

KY086 TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old

oRdoo TIL a human skin lampshade was found in one of the houses in the Nazi SS soldier accomodation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. A speciality of the SS in Buchenwald was the production of macabre “gifts” made of human remains

7Dpb TIL American Geochemist Clair Patterson helped reduce lead levels within the blood of Americans by approximately 80% by the late 90s, after spending decades of fighting the industrial use of lead.

ygAV TIL David Ogilvy, a founder/forefather of modern advertising, despised outdoor ads: “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes… chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”