Post * jBvQ — Curious Curator

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TIL The last moments of Jonestown’s mass suicide were recorded by Jones. The FBI released the tape publicly.

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r8rd TIL that one of the oldest chess strategy books, from 1561, recommends playing with your back to the sun to blind your opponent. If playing at night by a fire, it advises you to cast a shadow over the board with your hand, so your opponent “will not be able to see where to play his pieces.”

m1WKE TIL that there are roughly 107 classes of animals of which we are only taught a simplified 6 in school (birds, mammals, reptiles, etc.)

ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.

wgMJ TIL that two scientists proved time dilation by each flying around the world carrying a synchronized atomic clock. Upon landing, the clocks were no longer in sync.

M7Qp8 TIL that although lambskin condoms protect against pregnancy, they are not effective at preventing the transmission of STDs.