Post * VBo5m — Curious Curator

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TIL that Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin both owed the same Tortoise

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aA1A TIL the genetic IQ of the world’s population is going down by 1.34 points per decade, because intelligent people have fewer children on average.

xrPo TIL that Raging Bull was shot in black and white for no artistic purpose; it was just because lighting equipment for shooting in color would be too expensive.

v1Enr TIL 29 years before Chenobyl, another lesser known nuclear disaster occurred in Kyshtym. Records are rare, but it seems some 10,000 people were evacuated and speculation that some 6000-8000 died

ADA6g TIL The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) produced 43 percent of songs on the radio in the US at one point in 2003

BkJb TIL during the Black Plague, some plague doctors were officially commissioned and paid to walk the streets and differentiate between the living and the dead by poking bodies with sticks.