Post * dL9j — Curious Curator

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TIL that BONO is the only human to have been nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and a Nobel prize

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QNaDE TIL: That human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. No matter how well you wash, nearly every nook and cranny of your body is covered in microscopic creatures. The greatest concentration of this microscopic life is in the dark murky depths of our oxygen-deprived bowels.

ANZ14 TIL that Christopher Lloyd was only 46 years old when he played Doc Brown in Back to the Future

b95Ya TIL that the north star is 4000 times brighter than our sun. The light we see when we look at the north star was generated in the year 1587, and it has been traveling through space for 434 years to reach us.

4b7N TIL that Ian Fleming (author of James Bond) used to drink as much as a bottle of gin per day. He later switched to bourbon after a doctor informed him of his failing health.

RvA8 TIL that Timothy Dexter the 18th century American businessman, writer, and noted eccentric, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough.