Post * oRVG7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that it took Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubiks Cube, one month to solve his own invention.

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Y7KnZ TIL that even though Winston Churchill's mother was a United States citizen, Churchill could not claim US citizenship because before 1934 you could not claim citizenship through your mother.

DDAr TIL that Garrett Hardin, author of “The Tragedy of the Commons” later acknowledged that having resources shared in common did not inevitably end badly, and that he should have titled his essay “The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons”

RDZ8 TIL In 2010 a man was forced at knife-point to eat his own beard during a dispute over a lawnmower sale.

X0V8D TIL that there is a species of tarantula named after Johnny Cash called Aphonopelma johnnycashi

a8elM TIL there's only one national flag that's the same whichever way you wave it - Switzerland. I.e it has four lines of symmetry - it reflects onto itself horizontally, vertically or through either diagonal.