Post * 0wZYM — Curious Curator

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TIL: That the French Army has trained eagles from birth in order to take down drones.

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YLNB TIL it takes 4 litres of water to make a 1 litre plastic water bottle

gMY99 TIL that Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős worked on mathematics for up to 20 hours a day and at the end of his life had output a mathematical yield of roughly 1,500 papers, an order of magnitude higher than his most prolific and famous colleagues. Of these roughly 1,500 papers 507 were co-written.

kolE TIL That Marie Curie, the Polish physicist and chemist, not only coined the term, “radioactivity”, she was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.

pvJN TIL that the FBI identified the Unabomber – in part – due to him using the phrase “you can’t eat your cake and have it too” instead of “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” in his manifesto.

m1Xpp TIL the bull shark, an aggressive species which can grow up to 13 feet long, has been found as far inland as Alton, Illinois, upstream from St. Louis, Missouri.