Post * v1jj — Curious Curator

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TIL that it would be physically impossible to write down all the zeroes in a googolplex (10^10^100), because there simply isn’t enough room in the universe.

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pgAZ TIL that ants make up 15% of all terrestrial animal biomass, and there are 10 thousand trillion ants on the planet

xYLB TIL that a Spanish woman claimed ownership of the Sun in 2010, using a loophole in the Space Treaty of 1967. Spanish courts validated her claim and she proceeded to charge companies that use solar energy. In 2015 she sued ebay after her account was blocked for selling plots of land on the Sun.

YbNr TIL The Led Zeppelin song “D'yer Mak'er” is pronounced “Jamaica” in reference to the way British people say the country’s name, hence the reggae beat.

VMB68 TIL of liquid ass. A spray invented and sold for practical jokes. It’s smell is so disgusting, it’s used to train combat medics and to prepare them for the horrible smells of disemboweled troops.

KV1Q TIL that Charles Hatfield, a self-proclaimed “moisture accelerator”, accepted a job from the city of San Diego in 1915 to end a long drought for $10,000 but was forced to deny payment when people died due to severe floods shortly after he completed the job.