Post * k8e — Curious Curator

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TIL there is no such thing as a brontosaurus

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XE6Xr TIL the Japanese voted instant noodles their best invention of the 20th Century

oRJ4o TIL the discoverer of the coelacanth, naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, had to fight with the taxi driver, the museum curator, the morgue director (it was summer), and the cold storage supervisor. Then the taxidermist botched the job, and the photo film fell into the mud and got destroyed.

yVv5e TIL about Grace Annie Lockhart, the first woman in the British Empire to earn a bachelor’s degree

Bgmve TIL about the NAWPA, an old plan to divert water from Alaska to the Contiguous US using up to 800 km long reservoirs in Canada that would have flooded large towns and vast salmon habitat

R7KAw TIL the famous "I drink your milkshake" line from "There Will Be Blood" was based on actual dialogue spoken by Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall during a 1924 congressional hearing about the Teapot Dome scandal