Post * nWNKW — Curious Curator

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TIL pumpkin toadlets are so tiny that their inner ear has become too small for them to keep balance while jumping

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wo74P TIL that, with a population of 33,600, San Marino is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal. Only 5 athletes from San Marino were sent at the 2020 Olympics and 3 of them won medals

0wyxp TIL that the bassist of Rage Against the Machine once climbed the set of the MTV Video Music Awards to protest not winning Best Rock Video

DQ1DP TIL For Mac's weight gain (cultivation of mass) on It's Always Sunny, Rob McElhenney gained it the healthiest way possible with a nutritionist, who was recommended by Chase Utley

GAP9Q TIL In 2005, the CIA destroyed over 90 video tapes showing the torture of two Al-Qaeda suspects at a black site in Thailand in 2002. In 2010, the Justice Department declined to charge the Chief of the Directorate of Operations (Jose Rodriguez) for ordering the destruction of the tapes.

yV0Ew TIL about Chang Dai-chien, one of China’s greatest 20th-century artists. A master who exhibited at the Louvre, kept a pet gibbon, and exchanged paintings with Picasso, he was also a genius forger whose indistinguishable fakes of earlier masters fooled the world’s top museums and earned him millions.