Post * X0BAj — Curious Curator

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TIL during the Crimean War, Adolphe Sax invented two other devices after the saxophone. Neither was built: he created the "Saxotonnerre", an engine-driven organ intended to be so loud as to be heard throughout all of Paris.The second was the "Saxocannon", a cannon capable of obliterating a city.

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16yB4 TIL that Spain sold its remaining Pacific possessions to the newly formed German Empire in 1899 after Spain's defeat with the US in the Spanish-American War

m1mPM TIL an artist created 90 pieces of artwork which are just cans of his feces. The most recent sale for one of the cans was about $291,000 usd. I learned this on QI.

Z89oo TIL the television show “Star Trek” aired 22 years before the first evidence of an exoplanet, in 1988, (planet outside our solar system) and 26 years before the first confirmed observation of exoplanet.

awn5b TIL that at one point, Pepsi was the 6th largest military power in the world.

R5VRj TIL the University of New Hampshire received millions in bequest from the frugal librarian, the late Robert Morin, who served the institution for many years. $1 million from the said funds was utilized to acquire a scoreboard for the freshly-constructed football stadium.