Post * a8LVo — Curious Curator

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TIL that Max Schmeling was the only boxer to knock Joe Louis out in his prime, despite the fact that Schmeling was a decade older than Louis, at the time they fought.

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VMZBB TIL T-Rex didn't roar, but it instead made a much more ominous deep, rumbling sound that it could produce without even opening it's mouth.

pGZ8 TIL that the bluetooth symbol is a bind rune made from the runes bjarkan and hagall

oR1dK TIL sales of Sunny Delight declined in the UK after one of its commercials showing a snowman turning orange was released at about the same time as news reports of a four-year-old girl's skin color turning orange due to drinking 1.5 liters a day of the product, which contained beta-carotene.

VB5pk TIL Tasmanian Devil's give birth to between 30 and 40 offsprings but the mother only has four teats. The first four to attach to teats survive, the others perish.

E1VN7 TIL the physicist Arthur Holly Compton, whose "scattering" experiment showed that photons have momentum, invented the "speed hump" on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis