Post * 8MNX — Curious Curator

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TIL that a 55 gal steel drum can be crushed like a tin can by heating it and then cooling it with ice water

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vPjjL TIL a mentally unstable man in Canada cut down a rare golden spruce tree, sacred to Indigenous people, to protest the logging industry. His trial was on the island where he cut down the tree. Fearing for his safety, he opted to kayak there solo rather than take a plane. He hasn't been seen since.

X0vwX TIL that radium passivates by forming a nitride film, unlike most metals, which form an oxide film

wLaLP TIL Quentin Tarantino refuses to share his wealth with his mother because she mocked his writing aspirations growing up.

QNv8d TIL that despite being just 250 miles from mainland Africa, Madagascar was originally settled by seafarers from Indonesia -- 3,000 miles to the east.

VVZB TIL sea shells sound ‘like the ocean’ because they act as resonators - you are actually hearing “the ambient noise that’s being produced all around and inside you, which you normally don’t hear or pay attention to because it’s too quiet.”