Post * xv55 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter

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1rPd TIL that in Armenia, all children aged 6 and up are taught chess at school, as it is a mandatory part of their curriculum.

8aeEa Brains are different in people who get the chills from music.

Me5Z0 TIL that children who have been in foster in care in the US have higher rates of PTSD than war veterans. Even children who have been abused/neglected fare better if they've remained in their homes than if they've been placed in foster care.

oBvLo TIL there is a "Robot Scientist" named Adam - in 2009, "Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators"

M7md7 TIL Frank Zappa's 1978 song "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee" was not about the prostate cancer that took Zappa's life in 1993 but is a story about getting STD from a girl that works at Jack In The Box.