Post * ERbo — Curious Curator

› added 9 years ago

422

TIL Christine Jorgensen, a transgender woman, was honored as “Woman of the Year” 62 years before Caitlyn Jenner was

Read more

KOkYE TIL that crocodilians are the closest living relatives of birds

ep615 TIL a researcher studying the 'Club 27' myth found that the most common age of death for musicians is 56, not 27. Among 11,054 musicians who died between 1950 and 2010, 1.3% died at age 27. Also, more musicians died at 28 than 27, and those who died young were more likely to belong to a newer genre.

XEAEj TIL that we originally discovered how digestion work because a man named Alexis St. Martin developed a fistula in his stomach after a gunshot wound. The physician placed bits of food on a spoon and inserted them into the mans stomach through the fistula in order to observe the process of digestion.

DQ1gV TIL About the "Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda" a 1941 investigation by anti-war Senators who were concerned that Hollywood was pushing for America to join WW2. It was abandoned after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

VMK8D TIL On April 30th 2003, the world rocket sled speed record was broken at Holloman High Speed Test Track, New Mexico. The sled reached Mach 9, 9465 feet per second (6453 mph) producing 228,000lbs thrust over 1.4 seconds. The track speed limit is currently set at Mach 10.