Post * QJL96 — Curious Curator

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TIL the dinosaurs are only on screen for 15 minutes in the original Jurassic Park film.

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9w7jX TIL that Toronto, with a tree canopy rivaling the world’s largest cities, has over 22,000 fruit-bearing street trees, including cherries, apples, pears, plum, and the most common hackberry! There’s even a map showing when and where these trees ripen each month.

8evdL TIL the theory of atoms comes from ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE. Democritus of Abdera, named the building blocks of matter atomos, meaning literally “indivisible,” about 430 BCE.

x60dg TIL that despite being advised by his professor not to pursue physics because “almost everything is already discovered,” Max Planck went on to develop quantum theory and win the Nobel Prize

BgpEd TIL the concept of contact lenses was conceived in 1823 and was realized in 1887. The original lenses weren't meant for sight correction. Instead they were used to protect diseased eyes.

ye9J TIL A ‘Republic’ places sovereignty in each individual person, whereas a 'Democracy’ is essentially a dictatorship of the Majority.