Post * pZ4N — Curious Curator

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TIL the galaxy M100 is so far away that if beings from there were to look at Earth right now, they would be watching the realtime extinction of the dinosaurs.

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VMVED TIL that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 (awarded in 1915), after the British empire fired on a gathering of unarmed men, women and children in Amritsar, India (Jallianwala Bagh massacre) which resulted in the death of over a 1000 civilians.

awM89 TIL in 1942 a forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.

wo4RP TIL I learned that 4th-century Chinese poet Su Hui wrote The Star Gauge, the most elaborate palindromic poem in history, dedicating it to her husband. Consisting of a 29x29 grid of 841 characters, it can be read in many directions and patterns to form more than 3,000 shorter rhyming poems.

rR9we TIL Michael Jackson's last words were for 'milk', his alleged nickname for propofol, the powerful hospital anaesthetic that he overdosed on. "He was pleading and begging to please please let him have some milk because that was the only thing that would work."

bDV0 TIL during the 2007 Writers Strike, David Letterman paid the Late Show staff out of his own pocket.