Post * oBgKW — Curious Curator

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TIL about Ol' Rip the Horned Toad. In 1897, a horned lizard was placed in a time capsule located in the Courthouse of Eastland, Texas along with other memorabilia. When the Courthouse was torn down 31 years later, the capsule was opened and Ol' Rip supposedly came back alive. He became a celebrity.

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GYjoQ TIL in algebra, letters at the beginning of the alphabet (a, b, c) is used to represent known quantities, whereas the letters at the end of the alphabet (x, y, z) are used to denote unknown quantities.

xVbn1 TIL about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry. He was a self-educated man, but he developed insights into space travel and rocket science that are still in use over a hundred years later, earning him a place in history as one of the pioneers of astronautics.

X8l6 TIL Fatburger has the hypocrite burger,vegan patty with bacon.

JYvZ8 TIL the moon appearing larger on the horizon is known as the Problem of Luna Mendex and is actually an illusion of the eye. The illusion can be broken by cupping your hand into a fist and looking through it at the 'large' horizon moon. It will immediately shrink in size.

X0MX8 TIL that "pair of pants" is a fixed term of mathematics that describes a certain type of surface with three holes