Post * R70Kj — Curious Curator

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TIL that, if consumed, the average human body will yield 125,822 calories.

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awo0b TIL the Milky Way is not flat like most galaxies, but slightly warped and twisted.

pbQ8 TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.

W7J5X TIL that, twice in the 1990s, crews lived in the Biosphere 2 facility to demonstrate how to live in a closed ecosystem, cultivating their fields and making scientific experimentations

d84Ej TIL that the 'appeal to nature' is a logical fallacy where people assume that something is either good because it's perceived as "natural", or bad because it's perceived as "unnatural".

LQOJ9 TIL The Temple of Debod is an ancient Egyptian temple that was dismantled and rebuilt in the center of Madrid, Spain. It was moved due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam and the consequent threat posed by its reservoir.