Post * 1a4Dd — Curious Curator

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TIL that FDR's illness might have been Guillain–Barré syndrome, not polio

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jNwMv TIL About Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Washington State that is the 14.5 million year old cast of an early Rhino ancestor created when basalt lava slowly covered the corpse floating upside down in an ancient lake found 300 feet up the side of a cliff.

oRYmA TIL that, despite it being a common and recurring myth, there is no evidence lobster was ever fed to prisoners

69P1w TIL that Promethium is an extremely rare metal, with only about 500–600 grams naturally occurring in the earth’s crust

v11dK TIL that Brian Thompson, who played the villain in the 1986 film "Cobra," had to deliver his final monologue to the script supervisor instead of Sylvester Stallone, who was busy watching a basketball game.

yxVV TIL that when Patrick Stewart first saw an X-Men comic he asked, “What am I doing on the front of a comic book?”