Post * aN1o — Curious Curator

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TIL Stephen King and his wife donated $1.2 million to build a baseball stadium in Bangor Maine under the condition that he could see the scoreboard from his home office window

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5VKLk TIL Portuguese Jesuit missionaries João Cabral and Estêvão Cacella became the first Westerners to visit Bhutan and Nepal in 1627

XEKJ8 TIL that many languages from northwestern Europe all the way to southern Asia and India, including English, Greek, and Sanskrit, are all descended from a common language called Proto-Indo-European, which is believed to have been spoken in what is today southwestern Russia between 7500 and 4500 BC.

PDan TIL that in 2015 Boeing patented a plasma force field

aG90 TIL that the Roman Empire was not the largest empire in history, it is in fact only the 28th largest empire in history

grVyD TIL that Mammatus clouds look like pouches hanging from the sky. These rare cloud formations are typically found beneath thunderstorm anvil clouds and are often a sign of severe weather. They appear as a series of bulbous, sagging pockets and are formed by sinking air.