Post * Lp4m — Curious Curator

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TIL Scientists have developed a way to convert urine in to a renewable energy source. But there is some way to go before the idea is embraced more widely.

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OBQ7 TIL that the 4th largest state, Montana, only has one area code.

P50J TIL in 1979, two men arrived at a sheriff’s office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in “terribly distressed” voices about the abduction.

W7RZo TIL that the typical tax evader in the U.S. is a male under the age of 50 in a high tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is the overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.

QNGre TIL when Joe Louis, the world champion boxer, joined the racially segregated U.S. Army in 1942, he was asked about his decision. He replied, 'There are lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler isn't going to fix them.'

r8D1 TIL in 1975 a cat was listed as co-author on a physics paper because the author had incorrectly used the royal “we” throughout the paper and didn’t want to typewrite the whole thing again