Post * ploZ — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1887, a mathematician received a prize for his work on the stability of the solar system. A year later, after finding an error in his own work, he published a paper contradicting it, which led to the development of chaos theory.

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VMJom TIL at Area 51 Loads of paints and solvents used to make the Stealth bomber and other classified aircraft were set on fire in trenches causing clouds of poisonous smoke for laborers. The smoke resulted in respiratory illness, cancers and rashes. The official response was nothing happened at Area 51

jMkn TIL that Tigers in China are bred in captivity, those in captivity far outnumber the amount of wild tigers, as tigresses are made to produce cubs at 3 times more than their natural rate by having cubs weaned of pigs or dogs. All this to make Tiger Bone wine

m1mPM TIL an artist created 90 pieces of artwork which are just cans of his feces. The most recent sale for one of the cans was about $291,000 usd. I learned this on QI.

yQGPM TIL Christopher Robin began hating his bear and was upset by neglect from his father. AA Milne was preoccupied by a "dream son". "He had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son".

78Apr TIL that Nabisco is short for the somewhat dryly named National Biscuit Company.