Post * 8M98 — Curious Curator

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TIL that no one in Australia has died from a Spider bite since 1981

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8aKyZ TIL The moon is shaped like an egg: it only looks round because the big end points toward Earth

v1rlj TIL that the gravity at the International Space Station is approximately 90% as strong as on Earth. The reason why things and people float is that they are constantly falling down, the same way people in an elevator would float if it was falling too fast.

NrNP TIL Johnny Cash was the first radio operator to receive the news of Joseph Stalin’s death.

WOao TIL the name “Yosemite” means “They are killers” in Southern Sierra Miwok, a Utian language. The word was originally used for describing the people who lived in the region.

mxlbv TIL that the collapse of the USSR can be traced back to Anna Walentynowics, who spoke out about her boss stealing a workers’ bonus fund, got fired, workers struck in support of her, that escalated into the Solidarity movement, which led to the fall of communism in Poland and eventually Europe.