Post * 5VPlr — Curious Curator

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TIL There are more redwoods in the UK than in California. Many were planted in the Victorian era and are still growing taller.

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9QLm TIL During the horsemeat scandal earlier this year, meat pie from Iceland was tested and was found to contain no meat

ypGp TIL the tails of comets point away from the sun, not behind its travel direction

MeM4B TIL that right before he boarded his ship, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov said, “I'm not going to make it back from this flight.” He became the first person ever to die on a mission to space.

NJkE TIL Scientists at a Radio Telescope spent over twenty years trying to figure out the source of some signal interference, turns out is was their staff room microwave

l701a TIL of the Schöningen Spears, ten intact wooden spears discovered in a German mine between 1994-99. Strikingly similar to modern competition javelins, the 400,000 year old spears are the oldest worked wooden weapons ever found, and suggest early hominids used very sophisticated hunting techniques.