Post * ANKnn — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a written form of American Sign Language (and other sign languages) called Gloss.

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0wYxL TIL that there was a year (46 BCE) with 445 days. It is often known as "the year of confusion".

9ROD TIL that jaguars have been reported to eat the hallucinogenic Ayahuasca root before they hunt. Indigenous people of the Amazon believe the jaguars do it to sharpen their senses.

kr77 TIL: The densest wood in the world Lignum Vitae is also self lubricating, it’s been used for hundreds of years on ships, and was used for the main shaft bearings on the first Nuclear Submarine in 1955.

l79y7 TIL About Morton's Toe, a condition where the second toe is longer than the first toe. This is also known as a Greek foot, as opposed to the Egyptian's foot where the first toe is longer than the second toe. Only less than a quarter of the population has Morton's Toe.

B5yx TIL that until the 17th century most scientists believed that the speed of light was infinite. It was only in 1676 that Ole Rømer and Giovanni Cassini made the first measurement of the velocity of light (just 27% off the real value) by observing the orbits of the moons of Jupiter.