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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Oo0Ve TIL in 2010, a Japanese chef from Nagoya, Japan was crowned World Champion for having the best pizza in the world, topping 150 chefs from other countries, including Italy.

DQYle TIL 80% of the moon rock mass picked up by Apollo astronauts in the NASA collection remains stored in a pristine condition for future scientific study

b96ME TIL: In theory the top 0-60mph time the human body could survive is 0.091s

rNNRM TIL of Commander James H. Ward, the first US Naval officer to be killed in the American Civil War. A destroyer named after him fired the first American shots of the Pacific Theater in WW2, sinking a Japanese submarine. Actor Andy Devine is his great-grandson.

OGon7 TIL Charles Mason, of the famous Mason-Dixon line, was an accomplished astronomer who recorded the transit of Venus in 1761 and developed a Lunar Table in attempt to solve the Longitude Problem.