Post * ep6EE — Curious Curator

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TIL French physicists Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau made the first successful photograph of the sun in 1845, five years after the first photograph of the Moon. In a major technological feat at the time, the solar photograph had an exposure time of 1/60th of a second

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grrj7 TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.

YpJVA TIL that elephants are so complex they are able to mourn, cry, have mental breakdowns, play the drums, paint, mimic humans’ speech and show basic arithmetic skills.

R7KR9 TIL the term "in a New York minute" was first recorded in the mid-twentieth century in Piney Woods, Texas.

awWgZ TIL The Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos was not the one who discovered the Pythagorean theorem.

Xgm8 TIL that after WW2 Finland was the only nation to fully pay their war reparations of US$300,000,000 to the Sovjet union.