Post * nLWd — Curious Curator

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TIL The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.

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LQEkZ TIL that the highest (Mount Whitney) and lowest (Badwater Basin) points in the contiguous United States are located only 85 miles apart.

XEDvP TIL of the Leatherman, a vagabond who walked an annual 365 mile circuit in Connecticut and New York for over 30 years; he wore handmade leather clothes, slept in caves, and communicated with gestures in broken English, though he was fluent in French. His background, name, and origin are all unknown.

vPEE7 TIL that Pornhub has their own record label called Pornhub Records. Under that record label they have released two albums, a valentines day album in 2019 and most recently XXXmas, a Christmas album released in December 2020.

8aEEb TIL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 incorrectly predicts a ‘mate in two’ in a chess game with the astronaut. Fans have speculated whether this was a filmmaking error, a test by HAL of the human’s reliability, or an early sign that HAL is malfunctioning. Kubrick died without revealing the answer.

WkPK4 TIL the most distant individual star ever observed is 𝟵 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 light years away from Earth. It's called 𝗜𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘂𝘀 and it was detected through 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴.