Post * 1alDW — Curious Curator

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TIL whenever a hermit crab finds a shell too big for itself it'll wait until a queue forms and an individual that fits the shell is found. Then an exchange will occur - smaller crabs will move to newly emptied shells.

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GDkJ TIL that back in the day, a lot of professional middle-class blacks always traveled with a chauffeur’s hat. The reason: If they were driving a nice new car through a small southern town, they didn’t want police officers, or any other whites, to know the car belonged to them.

lom6G TIL: That 1985's Live Aid helped fund the corrupt Ethiopian government and was spent on guns, not to relieve famine.

x6pEb TIL in 1952, Navy LT Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. Carter, alongside others, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand, exposing himself to one thousand times the level of safe radiation.

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