Post * QJGA9 — Curious Curator

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TIL Luxembourg is the wealthiest nation on Earth per capita, where citizens earn an average of $114K

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d8Gd TIL meteorites that fell on the early Earth brought reduced phosphorus to the planet. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, thus providing a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA.

Bra1e TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese aerospace engineer who was a founding member of JPL. When he was stripped of his security clearances during the Red Scare despite protests by his colleagues, he moved back to China where he became well known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry"

yQjKa TIL lawmakers in South Carolina wanted to raise a monument to honor black Confederate troops from South Carolina without knowing that there weren't any black Confederate soldiers in South Carolina.

wLpZP TIL about Agloe, New York, a fake village created by mapmakers as a "copyright trap" to catch plagiarists

8aNW8 TIL that there's a variant of chess called Losing Chess, where the object of the game is to either have all your pieces get captured, or get stalemated.