Post * X0v7k — Curious Curator

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TIL that, other than The Beatles, Mariah Carey holds the most number ones in US history (19)

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QNkGe TIL that there are hundreds of totally free online courses from universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Caltech, and others in a huge range of subjects

RRk8 TIL that Jupiter’s gravity will eventually cause Mercury to crash into the Sun or to be ejected from the Solar System.

vPg74 TIL about Congo (1954-1964), a chimpanzee artist who drew and painted in the style of abstract impressionism and created 400 art pieces, some of which sold for over $25,000 dollars at a 2005 auction that included works by Renoir and Warhol

R76b7 TIL in the anatomy building at Dalian Medical University, where medical student can practice on cadavers, there's a sign with a quote from a donor that reads "I’d rather let students try something 20 times on me than see them make one mistake on a future patient.”

moWM TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.