Post * vMwK — Curious Curator

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TIL that Steve Tilston, an English folk singer, was sent a letter from John Lennon in 1971 in which John wrote, “Being rich doesn’t change your experience in the way you think.” Steve Tilston didn’t receive this letter until 2005, 32 years later.

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a8nV0 TIL when Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend he noticed one flower was extremely long and bet some moth with really long mouth parts exists to pollinate it. A few years later that moth was discovered.

kO974 TIL about Amanda "Powerhouse" Lucas, George Lucas' eldest daughter. She was a professional MMA fighter for six years until she retired to start a family. Lucas had bit parts in all three of the Star Wars prequel movies.

9YjRm TIL In 1944, a crossword writer for The Daily Telegraph caused alarm at MI-5 by accidentally publishing information on the impending D-Day landings. "Utah", "Omaha", "Overlord" and other codewords all appeared in his work a month before the invasion. It turned out to be entirely harmless chance.

OReg TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their vision restored though surgery, and no, they couldn’t.

awDJA TIL that ancient Greek historian Herodotus once reported that there existed gold-digging ants. This was most likely a translation error. But there are marmots in the Himalayas of the Deosai plateau where local tribes have been known to collect gold dust from their burrows