Post * KYD0G — Curious Curator

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TIL laboratories practiced mouth pipetting when accessioning specimens “until the 1970s, when cheap mechanical pipettes became available.”

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6Bn8 TIL Firms illegally dumped nuclear waste off Somalia coast, brought to the coast by a Tsunami, causing radiation sickness to the local villagers in 2005

9YgND TIL zoologist Francis Buckland kept the remains of a cat under his bed at Winchester College, dug up and ate a dead panther from a zoo (declaring the meat "not very good"), and took his pet bear Tigleth Pileser to a meeting at Oxford University dressed in a cap and gown.

mYrR TIL: The mountain range that the Russian meteor hit today was also the site of the “Dyatlov Pass Incident”, one of the strangest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

dLW7 TIL After phasing out coal power plants, Toronto has been smog free for the first time in over a decade

4XoBg TIL - Phil Collins amazed Disney bosses when he agreed to sing his songs for the studio's films Tarzan and Brother Bear phonetically in a number of different languages.