Post * GYmk1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Rasputin, (the legendary Russian mystic that slept with half of Russia) had his penis preserved after he was killed.

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a8ojA TIL that Jack White from The White Stripes got his last name from his then wife and bandmate, Meg White. They divorced in 2000 and continued touring together for decade, until they disbanded in 2011. Jack, who has re-married 2 times, still uses the "White" lastname to this day

4kBQX TIL that Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-American physicist, made critical contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War 2. Her experiments disproving the law of conservation of parity in weak nuclear interactions, known as the "Wu experiment," earned her the nickname "the First Lady of Physics

R7yvQ TIL ancient remains of at least 15 humans were found in a chamber in a cave, 80 m from the entrance, only 25–50 cm at its narrowest, and at the bottom of a 12 m vertical drop, in complete darkness and with no evidence of any tools or fire. They were from the previously undiscovered Homo Naledi.

b9N57 TIL for the longest time (not anymore) the fastest man made object was a manhole cover blown into space in 1957 by the US with a nuclear bomb. They estimated approx. 125000 mp/h (200000 km/h). This would have had them zipping past Pluto around 1961.

MJdm TIL of Jerningham Wakefield, a New Zealand politician who was such a notorious drunk, his friends would lock him in Parliament overnight to keep him sober enough to vote the next day. However, this failed in 1872 when his political enemies began lowering bottles of whisky down the chimney.