Post * 6EolX — Curious Curator

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TIL That when Washington D.C. was first built and the federal government moved there, there was no building for the Supreme Court. They had no permanent meeting place until 1810, when they moved into the north wing (Senate) of the Capitol and stayed there until 1935 when they had their own building.

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OoWva TIL that the jumping spider, Nefertiti, was launched to the ISS to observe if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeeded in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than leaping, as this species usually does. It survived reentry and readjusted to full gravity before its natural death.

R57Ej Til that your body has a relatively constant total daily energy expenditure. It will allow temporarily elevated caloric burns but the more days that you increase your expenditure, it will normalize your daily expenditure by showing or shutting down other processes.

nkRG TIL Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the first animated film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and remained the only animated film until 2010 when the field was widened to 10 nominations (Up was the 2nd).

j6keQ TIL Philosopher JJC Smart termed the sensations (and broadly, elements of the consciousness) such that are not explained by established physical laws and science as “nomological danglers”.

9wAxQ TIL in 1903, a US Senator from Alabama proposed a plan that will "encourage" African-Americans to settle in the Philippines. Which was recently acquired from Spain.