Post * QJwpp — Curious Curator

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TIL Astronomers discovered a solid planetary body that may actually be the core of a giant gas planet that lost its atmosphere. This body is about 3.5 times the radius of Earth but has a 39 times greater mass than Earth.

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OGgnX TIL in 2013 two Iranian F-4 Phantoms attempted to intercept a drone escorted by two F-22 Raptors. Due to having a bumblebee-sized radar cross-section, an F-22 was able to fly underneath an F-4 to see its weapons without it noticing then flew next to the F-4 and radioed "you really ought to go home."

Y81G TIL of PETERS v. FIREMEN INSURANCE CO: man gives woman herpes, she sues him, he claims that since he used his boat to foster romance and sexual conduct the company that insured his boat should provide coverage because they were suppose to cover incidents resulting from his use of the boat.

oRdGY TIL An unexplained phenomenon in neuroscience is the discovery that electrical stimulation in temporal neocortex can cause neurosurgical patients to spontaneously experience memory retrieval. (2012)

EgGax TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”

b9y7p TIL Susan B. Anthony, although known for work for women's suffrage, was also an abolitionist: she collected anti-slavery petitions when she was 17, and in her 30's she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.