Post * wX6Y — Curious Curator

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TIL chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen once beat 10 challengers simultaneously without looking at any of the boards.

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GML5 TIL that in the 1960s, Wham-O made a “giant” Super Ball, roughly the size of a bowling ball, and dropped it from a 23rd story window as a promotional stunt. It destroyed a parked car on the second bounce.

Z8PxB TIL that Whitesnake’s monster hit from 1987 “Here I Go Again” is a remake of a 1982 Whitesnake song

QNx7L TIL Henry Ford had two automobile companies fail to nothing before founding the Ford Motor Company which delivered the Model A in 1904

Lkd00 TIL that the French philosophy on emergency medical care is to provide a higher level of care at the scene of the incident, and so every ambulance is staffed with a Doctor who arrives on site.

XE1Jk TIL the Honey Possum (of Western Australia) is the only flightless animal in the world to live solely on a diet of nectar and pollen. Honey Possum males have the largest sperm of any mammal in the world (0.14inches), whilst their young are born weighing only 0.005g.