Post * 7rkoO — Curious Curator

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TIL in the 1940s baseball umpires were called “guessers.” Anyone who questioned their calls were known as secondguessers, which is how the word second-guess was introduced to the English language.

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BrEky TIL that because of Uranus’ axial tilt, it “rolls” around the sun like a marble. It’s poles each experience 42 years of light and 42 years of darkness during the summer and winter solstices.

Yl1B TIL Squirrels forget where they’ve hidden 50% of the nuts they bury resulting in the growth of thousands of trees annually

k6OE TIL According to the FBI gang membership is 50-100 times higher in the US Military than in the general population

5kgk TIL: In NYC in 1987 the number of people bitten by squirrels: 95. The number of people bitten by other people in NYC that year: 1600.

dDWoZ TIL Chinese women once had to point out their medical troubles on ivory dolls