Post * LQEbr — Curious Curator

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TIL that Leo Fender, the founder of Fender Guitars, did not know how to play a guitar at all.

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xVPG7 TIL that there is a species of desert rodent, the Kangaroo Rat, which does not drink water at all. Instead it absorbs water through the metabolic oxidation of the seeds it eats and uses it with near perfect efficiency.

6j9Y TIL that the name “Gorillaz” isn’t a pun, because a group of gorillas isn’t called a band, it’s called a troop.

Ooxxg TIL France's ruling class wanted to support the Confederacy and Mexico's Cinco de Mayo victory at the Battle of Puebla may have prevented them from doing so.

XExYP TIL about Elizabeth Cochrane, who, under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, got herself admitted into an insane asylum in Blackwell's Island by feigning insanity to uncover what really goes on there and how the patients are treated. Her exposé of the conditions of the patients were collected into a book

rmno TIL that there is a psychological phenonomon called the ‘uncanny valley,’ which is where something becomes “cuter” as it becomes more human looking, until it reaches a point where it is almost human but not quite, in which case it appears creepy or strange