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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v1LBB TIL of Eugene Bostwick, a retired Texas farmer who kept taking in dogs that people abandoned at the dead-end street near his horse barn; he would feed the dogs & take them to the vet to get spayed & neutered. He built a "dog train" in order to take all his dogs out at the same time with his tractor.

pkDb TIL in 1964 the FBI attempted to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into suicide by threatening to make public his sexual indiscretions.

j6Vva TIL that there are 10,000 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on Earth

yZyp TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.

GAynN TIL that the first known vending machine was created in ancient Egypt by Hero of Alexandria and dispensed holy water after inserting a coin.