Post * D1Vbr — Curious Curator

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TIL Saudi Arabia's special needs football team won the World Cup four times in a row

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Wk7MX What can liquefy its limbs, throw up its own stomach and still live? Echinoderms, a group of sea creatures that can regenerate their own body parts! In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Explorer Paul Bump tells you all about echinoderm’s incredible capacity for regeneration.

oBQ58 TIL Peter Ivers, the artist that wrote and recorded the song "In Heaven" for David Lynch's film "Eraserhead," was bludgeoned to death with a hammer at his home in LA. He was 36 years old. His murder remains unsolved.

8yL8 TIL that in the early days of the Post Office, people would continue writing text on the same page at 90 degrees to the original text to reduce expensive postage costs.

ZpZXG Today I learned that for about ten years, ending in 1957, British television schedules had a gap from 6pm-7pm called the 'Toddlers' Truce' where for an hour there was no programming so that parents could put the kiddies to bed.

E1ag0 TIL that the Super Soaker was invented in 1990 by NASA engineer, and Air Force Veteran Lonnie George Johnson who describes himself as a "part of a small group of African-American inventors whose work accounts for 6 percent of all U.S. patent applications."