Post * XwZQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Soviet Union attempted to domesticate moose for use in a cavalry.

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VBYLp TIL there are currently 4 major wars (10,000 or more combat-related deaths in current or past year) and 19 wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or past year) taking place

0Vl5 TIL- Pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to North America is pollinated by flies because the flowers smell like rotting meat, the fruit tastes like a banana/mango

VPD8 TIL that if humans could accelerate their arms at one tenth of the speed that a mantis shrimp does, we could throw a baseball into orbit.

Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem

9YMYX TIL in 1948 psychologist Bertram Forer gave a personality test to 39 students and provided the results one week later. The class gave the results' accuracy a rating of 4.3 out of 5. The results Forer provided to every student was exactly the same sketch, all gathered from a newsstand astrology book.