Post * k555 — Curious Curator

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TIL people use a banana for scale… when measuring radiation.

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nWpV9 TIL that in 1979, an unknown man known as the "Toynbee Tiles" artist began placing mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of cities across the U.S. and South America, featuring cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter.

1ZlV TIL That during a mass extinction event nicknamed ‘The Great Dying’ a full 96% of life on Earth was wiped out. Everything and everyone here today is descended from the 4% that survived.

7QdO TIL the word “Ewok” was never said in Star Wars.

WkDeo TIL there’s a 10,000 year old Stonehenge-like structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan that has a carving of a mastodon on it.

8egZG TIL in a football game in 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech made 32 touchdowns, and never attempted to pass: they ran the ball on every single play. It was such a butt-whooping that the referees cut the last two quarters to 12 minutes instead of 15.