Post * QJgyM — Curious Curator

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TIL that crows use cars to crack open nuts. To avoid being run over, they drop their nuts at pedestrian crossing.

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lLoA TIL that Henry Heimlich, the man who created the Heimlich Maneuver, is still alive

eWW5 TIL A man named Leland Stanford made a bet that all of a horses hooves leave the ground when it gallops. He placed the bet at $25,000 and won with the help of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge later, was the first to make a moving picture.

Lk4v0 TIL Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire Killed 11% of the World's Population in the 13th Century

B5wW TIL that in an 8-hour day, a survey found that the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.

WE8N TIL a man was hit by a Metro train going 70mph and his flying body parts injured a woman. She sued his estate on the theory that “"If you do something as stupid as this guy did, you have to be responsible for what comes from it”