Post * 5Y0vr — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1969, a 14-year-old boy in Toronto pretended he was a professional news photographer and was able to secure an interview with John Lennon, which sat around until it became part of a documentary in 2007

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l71XV TIL Jeff Goldblum tickles some mean ivories.

kjMe TIL of Adactylidium, a species of mite in which seven female offspring and one male offspring are raised in their mother’s insides. The females then mate with the male and eat their mother alive from the inside-out. Then, they escape their mother’s corpse, leaving their brother to die.

d8K6B TIL Nasa plans to probe Uranus in about 15 years

nQkG TIL the Queen of England’s portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging

oBQxK TIL the Fibonacci Sequence was identified by ancient Indian author Pingala around 200 BC. Writing about meters in Sanskrit poetry, he also described binary numbers (in the form of short & long syllables, similar to Morse code), Pascal's Triangle, and the first known explicit reference to zero.