Post * MeJlb — Curious Curator

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TIL that Lt Gen Lesley McNair was killed by errant bombs of the Eight Air Force, near Saint-Lô on July 25, 1944. In one of the first Allied efforts to use heavy bombers in support of ground combat troops, several planes dropped their bombs short of their targets

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699Nw TIL that when deaf people experience stroke-related brain damage, they often lose the ability to sign in remarkably similar ways to the different forms of linguistic aphasia (difficulty speaking, forming words, sentences being nonsensical)

oBrN7 TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain

NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.

4kbZw TIL pop star Katy Perry has been nominated for 13 GRAMMYs since 2009 and has not won any of those nominations, while also being a recipient of 14 People's Choice Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 5 American Music Awards, and four Guinness World Records among many other awards.

9wP6 TIL Cher Ami, a pigeon in the 77th Division in WWI, successfully delivered a message stopping the friendly artillery fire on the 77th Division’s position, even after being shot, and won the French Croix de guerre.