Post * Pvn — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Peruvian president from the 1990s is of Japanese descent. He wore a kimono and brandished a samurai sword in his presidential campaign.

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Mk0b TIL there is a time capsule of sorts not intended to be opened until 8113 AD called the Crypt of Civilization

WVlX TIL When JFK was running for office in 1946, his father paid a man with the same name as his biggest opponent to run for election, thus confusing voters and taking votes away from the true opponent.

xnWD TIL: When clasped by a predator, the spiny mouse is able to shed its skin, sometimes losing up to 60 percent of it’s skin in a single slough to escape. It can then regrow it over the course of a few days. It is the only known mammal to practice Autotomy, or self amputation.

9YjBp TIL that Ian Fleming, intelligence officer and author of the spy genre series "James Bond", also wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

9Y7BD TIL that in 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope on the emptiest part of the sky they could find and left it for 10 days, letting light accumulate until incredibly faint objects could be detected. It resulted in an image of about 3000 galaxies. This is the Hubble Deep Field.