Post * X0b0R — Curious Curator

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TIL Bobby Fischer learned chess at age 6 when his sister randomly bought him a cheap chess set and he got so obsessed he used to study chess books for hours alone in his Brooklyn apartment.

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ZLJ4 TIL that Sri Lanka and India were connected as recently as the 15th century by a chain of limestone shoals known as “Adam’s Bridge”

awRlZ TIL that beavers build dams based on the sound of flowing water, even if raised in captivity or in the absence of actual water.

kOYk5 There is an animal that grows a temporary 'mohawk' to impress females

awVDo TIL that an Arizona Senator candidate got away with murdering his Mom & Sister. Claims it was self defense, yet the bodies of his mom and sister were found in their rooms to have died of being shot in there sleep. He claims he killed them in his room after his mother shot at him.

OoDO4 TIL: Astronauts left their poop on the moon. They threw out the garbage thinking everything would be sanitized by the solar radiation. Scientists don't know if the microbes in the feces are still alive, but future moon missions will investigate that.