Post * xw1o — Curious Curator

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TIL a man bought 2 pizzas in 2010 using 10,000 bitcoins, worth over 10 million dollars today.

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kOJQe TIL that the ADE 651; an inert rod of metal with a plastic hinge, was sold as a bomb detector. It was used by the militaries of Iraq, Afghanistan and more than a dozen other countries for years before anyone noticed that it did nothing at all.

8aboV TIL Richard Valenzuela, better known as Ritchie Valens, was born in California and only spoke English at home. Valens had to learn the lyrics phonetically to record "La Bamba" in Spanish.

WkjkX TIL of the Moro Reflex, first described by pediatrician Ernst Moro. It is believed to be the only UNLEARNED fear in humans.

GYd7 TIL Marie Curie’s notebooks from the late 19th century are still too radioactive to be handled

p6x8 TIL The script for Being John Malkovich was written exclusively for John Malkovich (without his knowledge). New Line Cinema dropped the film after asking “Why the fuck can’t it be being Tom Cruise?” When John Malkovich first read the script he was “half intrigued and half horrified.”