Post * yQv9e — Curious Curator

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TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program

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yQGmw TIL that Berlin's Schoenefeld airport once had to be evacuated after security staff mistook a passenger's vibrator for a hand grenade

1aXP4 TIL three Israeli brothers—Ramy, Muzher, and Shadde Badir—managed to set up an extensive phone and computer fraud scheme in Israel in the 1990s, despite all of them being born blind.

pY7x4 TIL, palm trees are not trees; but a type of grass. A palm tree does not create rings as it grows – it’s yearly growth isn’t marked on the tree a palm tree does not grow bark – it’s basically the same on the inside as the outside

4X59R TIL that these tiny worm kind things we see in our eye are called floaters and are tiny things like gel or cells in our eye balls that just cast shadows on the retina.

rRZx1 TIL in the 1960s you could buy a variety of monkeys from the Sears catalog as pets, each for about $50.