Post * 7Z4L — Curious Curator

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TIL If everyone lived as densely as the do in Manhattan, the human race could fit in New Zealand.

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gMODX TIL that a paleontologist served stew made from the neck meat of an at least 50,000-year-old bison to a dinner party of seven people in Alaska in 1984

6EXgm TIL that George Tunney was executed via electric chair when he was 14 in 1944 only to have his conviction vacated 70 years later

Lko5m TIL when Japanese pole vaulters Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe tied for silver at the 1936 Olympics they refused a tie-breaker. The silver was arbitrarily awarded to Nishida. They had their medals cut in half and then welded together so they each had one "friendship medal" of half silver, half bronze.

wL86Y TIL of elder rights activist Maggie Kuhn who founded the activist group Gray Panthers. She advocated for intergenerational housing, opposed the Vietnam War, attempted to reduce the taboo surrounding the sexualities of older people, and believed teenagers should have more societal responsibility.

Bgyad TIL a hypothetical black hole with a size of just 0.2 millimeters (1⁄127 inch) would have the same mass as the Moon