Post * VX88 — Curious Curator

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TIL a cotton ball soaked in super glue will spontaneously combust.

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OW8L TIL psychologist Dan Ariely and others earned the 2008 Ig Nobel prize in medicine “ for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine”

odxY TIL Teddy Roosevelt helped save American Football by urging rules changes to make the game safer after 19 players died during the 1905 season.

p8wwA TIL It took architect Christopher Wren 35 years to complete London's St. Paul's Cathedral. After he died twelve years later in 1723, he was entombed inside, and Wren's son placed a dedication nearby, which contains the words "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you."

j6E6E TIL that Rwandan cricketer Eric Dusingizimana created a Guinness World Record by batting for 51 hours continously (inclusive of food break) at an indoor cricket nets in Rwanda in order to raise funds to build an international cricket ground in Rwanda

D1dwD TIL June Foray voiced so many familiar characters in her career- from Tweety/Sylvester's Granny, Cindy Lou Who, Rocky the Squirrel, even Chatty Cathy the first talking doll- that Chuck Jones said, "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray."