Post * prxA — Curious Curator

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TIL Donald Trump ran a university that was intended to teach investing skills, however, it was all a scam.

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b9JO7 TIL That Salvator Mundi, a painting of Christ holding a crystal orb, by Leonardo Da Vinci, is the current most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. In 2017, it sold for $450.3M. In contrast, in 2005, at pre restoration, it sold for less than $10,000, as sellers believed it was a mere copy.

wLlkW TIL large schools of fish can accidentally trap themselves in a small area with no way out while attempting to evade predators. If there are too many in a small or enclosed area they can deplete the water of oxygen and they will asphyxiate by the thousands.

a8xNo TIL stars don't move during space travel as in movies. As Apollo astronauts looked out the window while speeding toward the moon, it looked like they were motionless because the stars didn't move.

gM5o9 TIL That Hawkeye is the ONLY superhero to have been a member of the Avengers AND the Justice League

GYLlg TIL there is a Solar Library containing the Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, stored in a 5D optical data storage made of quartz, in the glovebox of the Cherry Red Tesla Roadster orbiting the Sun. The Arch library will orbit the Sun for at least 30 millions of years inside Elon's Tesla Roadster