Post * XEnRQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that blind people don't see black or anything in particular. They see literally nothing.

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9RbB TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.

b6gME TIL Michael Jordan still holds the record for worst score in a three point contest; making only 5 out of 30 shots in 1990.

rRYWd TIL Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., was the first African American astronaut. The project he worked on would go on to become the International Space Station. He died in the backseat of his plane while teaching a cadet how to fly 50 years ago this past Friday (December 8, 1967). He was 32 years old.

9XKr TIL that South Carolina law prohibits anyone over age 18 from dressing up as a clown.

d8b4K TIL lizards in areas hit by hurricanes have evolved grippier, bigger toe pads in order to hang on against high winds, even within one generation. Researchers studied 188 anole lizard species in 70 years of hurricane data. In areas spared by hurricanes, lizard toe pads were smaller.