Post * oO5o — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska is never more than 55 meters deep.

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DLVg TIL that a woman driving to a Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a motorcyclist with a flat tire, who turned out to be Dave Matthews. She and her boyfriend got front row seats, backstage passes, and Matthews took them to dinner afterwords.

bvBj TIL in 1908 a British pub owner was charged with allowing gambling on a game of chance - darts. He brought a darts player into the court who hit any number requested to prove that darts is a game of skill.

9wZ8X TIL Johannes Kepler's mother Katharina, who first sparked his interest in astronomy at age 6 with the Great Comet of 1577, was accused of witchcraft using garbled contents of mankind's first science fiction The Dream, which he wrote. He succeeded in acquitting and releasing her alive, a rare result

e0eLL TIL Gold is almost twice as dense as Lead. Even though a molecule of lead weighs more than a molecule of gold, gold molecules are smaller, and the density of gold (19.3g/cc) is almost twice that of lead (11.3g/cc)

xVkL1 TIL years before Pawn Stars, Rick Harrison was visited and interviewed by Dave Attell for his Insomniac show 15 years ago. He looked like a punk back then.