Post * wLpBY — Curious Curator

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TIL that meteors blasting through earth's atmosphere can be used for long distance radio communications

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6E8EJ TIL ancient Greek and Roman male sculptures have such small penises because men with small penises were viewed as more intellectual, rational and authoritative. Also because all the statues were flaccid.

X0X6R TIL that the idea that '30-50% of the population don't have internal narratives/monologues' came from a study of 5 people and has never been clinically reproduced

BgKnD TIL that Brigham Young was once a distiller

v1w1j TIL it took Tesla just a year from the time they've formed Shanghai subsidiary to actually producing cars — bidding process for land was automatically stopped early because Tesla was the only bidder; groundbreaking a few months later; 9 months after groundbreaking cars rolled off production line.

GYWaJ TIL that while competing at the 2002 World Junior Championships at the age of 15, Bolt became so nervous from the crowd's expectations that he put his shoes on the wrong feet. Nevertheless, he won the race, becoming the world's youngest junior gold medallist.