Post * dDAQ — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a mountain in Canada called “Unnecessary Mountain”.

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Lk50d TIL that the Soviet Union successfully landed 10 probes on the surface of Venus between the years 1961 and 1984. In spite of the short life spans of the Venera landers due to the extreme surface conditions, several of the landers were still successful in transmitting imagery from the surface.

rNErx TIL before the battle of Drepana in the 1st punic war the roman navy commander Claudius Pulcher was told that the sacred chicken refused to eat. Ignoring the bad omen, he said "let's see if they'll drink instead" and threw them into the sea. He lost the battle

oBMg7 TIL about dazzle camouflage, used for naval ships in WWI. It consisted of "complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other." This would make it hard for German U-boats to accurately shoot torpedoes.

o6A8 TIL that John Horwood, a stalker convicted of murdering a young woman in 1821, was sentenced to dissection by a court in Bristol, UK. A surgeon peeled and consequently tanned his skin and made it into a book called “the skin of John Horwood”, recording his findings within.

dJgQ TIL that baby squirrels will only pee and poop in their mother’s mouth so that the mother can dispose of the waste outside the nest in order to keep predators from smelling the scent.