Post * 9wZ9m — Curious Curator

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TIL: Rupaul owns 60,000 acres in Wyoming that he leases to oil companies for fracking

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X0GXD TIL: That to prepare for the role of Bridget Jones, actress Renée Zellweger worked at London book publishers Picador as a trainee in the publicity department.

Y79vx TIL the first known instance of a storm chaser or meteorologist killed by a tornado occurred in 2013 when Tim Samaras, his son Paul, & Carl Young were killed near El Reno, OK by the widest tornado ever recorded. It expanded from 1 mile to 2.6 miles wide in about 30 seconds as it closed in on them.

RPg6 TIL a creationist used the shape and appearance of the banana as proof of intelligent design. He later retracted his statements upon learning that bananas are a result of artificial selection by humans.

71NX TIL the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson can make 400,000 gallons of its own freshwater daily by desalinating surrounding saltwater

KO57J TIL That the reason some of us are early larks and some of us are night owls is down to our ancestors. Staggered sleeping patterns would have been an advantage in the distant past, when we lived in groups and needed someone to look out for wild beasts