Post * EYLW — Curious Curator

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TIL I learned there’s an annual 100-mile foot race so hard that only 11 people have even finished it since 1985. The date is secret, the entry form is secret, and the entry fee is $1.60 and a pack of Camels.

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VpJZ TIL that the world’s biggest and most advanced radio telescope will be built by 2024. It can scan the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be able to see 10 times further into the universe and detect signals that are 10 times older

QNEgM TIL: That following the capture of 81 German soldiers as prisoners of war, Germans soldiers attempted/largely succeeded in massacring an entire village. Only 13 out of nearly 700 men survived. The women survived thanks to 1 sympathetic soldier who freed them.

Y7OYx TIL grapefruit can be detrimental by inhibiting an enzyme in the body involved in processing medication, such as blood pressure medication, and some psychiatric medications

164r TIL that the underwear bomber had agreed to being sodomized by his Muslim brethren in the name of jihad so as to widen his anus just enough to be able to hold explosives inside.

JYVW8 TIL Robert Altman earned only $70,000 for directing the 1970 film MAS*H, but his 14-year-old son earned over $1 million for writing the lyrics of its epic theme song.