Post * WLkN — Curious Curator

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TIL that a candle’s flame burns millions of nano-diamonds every second

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VJl0 TIL that 50 to 90 percent of the languages that are spoken today are expected to become extinct by the year 2100.

epmK4 TIL that American physicist Richard Feynman once faced off against a Japanese abacus expert to see which could calculate faster. The abacus consistently won on more simple operations, but Feynman was faster in division and complex calculations such as cube roots.

Oo6g TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan is writing a series of albums dealing with science so as to get more people hooked on science.

AD7en TIL that Wesley Snipes abused Halle Berry, and he once hit her so hard that she went 80% deaf in one ear

xVAK1 TIL that between 1995 and 2000, hundreds of girls in the US went through estrogen therapy that often causes serious long-term effects, to prevent them from growing taller because of perceived social harms of being “too tall”