Post * VBWrk — Curious Curator

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TIL Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one.

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rGO0 TIL The Axolotl can be forced to transform into its adult salamander form with an injection of iodine. It never becomes an fully mature salamander in the wild.

bjxa TIL at full sprint a cheetah spends more time flying than in contact with the ground

E19Xo TIL Charles Darwin's grandad, Erasmus Darwin, conceived a rocket engine in 1779. It used oxygen and hydrogen for fuel, the same fuels NASA's rockets use today, 200+ years later.

WkOB9 TIL of the parasitic botfly which grow under the skin of animals and humans while feeding from their flesh. Once mature, they burst out from the skin of their host.

9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.