Post * oByGE — Curious Curator

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TIL about a highly complex structure known simply as "E8"', a weird 8-dimensional mathematical object that for some, strange reason, appears to encode all of the particles and forces of our 3-dimensional universe.

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Yp4Yx TIL in 2006, a British man had a life-threatening illness, and thought he was about to die. He called his wife and confessed to having an affair with her best friend. He survived, and in 2010, she murdered him at their home. She was arrеstеd, and eventually sentenced to 582 days for manslaughter

v1N5R TIL sugar is an effective treatment when applied topically to antibiotic resistant MrSA

VMlWD TIL of Edward Katskee, a scientist who accidentally overdosed on Cocaine after he purposefully injected himself with a large dose of to test how it affected the human body. He attempted to write notes on the walls of his office as he died. They were deemed too illegible to be scientifically useful.

e0JXD TIL that third Mithridatic War Was Interrupted by a meteor crashing between two opposing armies.

oRM1E TIL that on the planet Mercury there is a crater named after George Balanchine because it looks like one of his tutus.