Post * MmWA — Curious Curator

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TIL A scientist once gave mice a perfect Utopia but in 560 days it degraded into a mice Dystopia:

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XEmQ8 TIL that the secret of True Damascus steel isnt lost, and it's able to be replicated using crucible steel with carbide forming elements like vanadium and molybdenum

v1814 Today I learned that club moss spores are so hydrophobic, if you pour them onto water, then stick your hand in the glass, it'll come out dry. Also, that it's super flammable. I heard it on a podcast but had to see it myself, and found this:

KOpBG TIL that 18th century France developed a visual telegraph system. Using a series of towers topped with adjustable beams that would display a message and instructions on the next tower to relay it to, messages could be sent across the country in a mere matter of hours, long before electricity.

xEj5 TIL Martin Scorsese’s new movie “The Wolf on Wall Street” hold’s the record for dropping the most f-bombs in a film

N7gDe TIL Adélie penguins have been observed to engage in necrophilia, as young males often cannot tell the difference between compliant and dead females. This was first observed in 1912 but was deemed too shocking, and so was only rediscovered in 2012.