Post * 6PnZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that cats bring their owners dead animals because it’s their way of saying you suck at hunting and you need to learn how…

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E1WBV TIL that there are two ATM machines in Antartica

V8Y8 TIL that 3³ +4⁴ + 3³ + 5⁵ = 3435. It is a natural number that is equal to the sum of its digits each raised to a power equal to the digit. It’s called a Munchausen number, after Baron Munchausen. Besides 0 and 1, the only two numbers are 3435 and 438579088.

OGxA6 TIL that in 1900, a physician named Jesse William Lazear wanted to prove that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. He allowed an infected mosquito to bite him, and he became infected with yellow fever, proving the hypothesis correct. He died 17 days later.

GAKGJ TIL The largest living organism on Earth is not a whale or a tree but a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the "humongous fungus," which spans over 2,385 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.

N7KV1 TIL that during the manhattan project, there was a legitimate concern that upon the detonation of an atomic bomb, the atmosphere would ignite and turn the earth into a mini star, killing everybody.