Post * JYje8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bobbie, a Scottish Collie, was lost by his owners while they were in Indiana. He found his way home to Oregon, a distance of more than 2,500 miles, walking the entire way. His route was mapped out by the letters sent to his family by people who had sheltered and helped him on the way.

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Z8Abp TIL that spiders legs extend using hydraulic pressure from their circulatory system, and when they're crushed the legs curl in due to the loss in pressure

8ad8Z TIL that 5000 years ago people in what is now Scotland carved intricate baseball sized stone balls in varied shapes and we don't know why.

4kp6g TIL that Twinsburg, Ohio was founded by a set of twins in 1818. Aaron and Moses Wilcox from Killingworth, CT purchased 4,000 acres of land and began selling small parcels at low prices to attract other sellers. Every year - since 1976 - Twinsburg has held the world’s largest festival for twins.

8br8 TIL in 2002, Sega’s president gifted all $695 million of his own company stock to save Sega from going bankrupt due to the Dreamcast; he died shortly afterwards following an arduous battle with cancer.

pXk4 TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.