Post * 5lJD — Curious Curator

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TIL that humans almost instinctively know the pentatonic scale

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xVZpD TIL: Spain is the world's second largest exporter of bricks

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

xVQjg TIL: about an open-sourced multiplayer space-station simulation called Space Station 13. Originally developed as an atmospherics simulator in 2003, it was eventually open-sourced in 2006. Contributors have made regular additions for over 15 years.

wLrmW TIL that although it's called the "San Francisco Bay Area", the city of San Francisco isn't even the biggest city in that area. San Jose, its neighbor to the South, is more populous and nearly 4 TIMES larger in area.

rRWpe Today I learned that there are brown dwarf stars which emit little to no visible light and can be as cold as - 55° to 8° F. They can be between 13 and 80 times the mass of Jupiter and fuse Lithium instead of Hydrogen.