Post * 4X61R — Curious Curator

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TIL all proceeds made by Bad Wolves' rock cover of "Zombie" are being donated to the children of Dolores O'Riordan, the late singer of The Cranberries.

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KOj06 TIL of Franz Reichelt,an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design

R5071 TIL that bugs called Eyelash mites live on our eyelashes, feeding on dead skin and oil and acting as a cleaner for our bodies

0wrZj TIL that, in 1913, a Nebraska man took a butcher knife and threatened to kill his wife and newborn son. The mother left him, remarried, and had the boy's name changed to that of his step-father. The boy, now known as Gerald Ford, later went on to become the 38th President of the United States.

ROZ8 TIL that when the body of a dead whale (or other large cetacean) falls to below 1'000m/3'000ft, it can form a “whale fall”: a localized ecosystem that supplies sustenance to deep-sea organisms. Creatures can use the carcass as a home, living off of it for decades.

RmL1 TIL in 1940 the incredible Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a behemoth vehicle designed to assist Adm. Perry’s Antarctic exploration but was a colossal failure as it could not operate in the snow. It was abandoned and its whereabouts is unknown.