Post * wok5P — Curious Curator

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TIL "magic mushrooms" are legal in Colorado and Oregon

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epnok TIL On Sep 9, 1947 team of computer scientists reported the world’s first computer bug—a moth trapped in their computer at Harvard University.

GYJpj TIL An edible fruitcake was discovered 100 years after British explorer Robert Falcon Scott died of starvation and exposure while attempting to become the first person to reach the South Pole in 1912

DQ4Gv TIL in the 1600s, a gardener created the first English cabinet of curiosities, "The Ark," an international collection of seeds, bulbs, art, weapons, and other "curiosities," inside a large London house that became the first museum open to the public in England, the Musaeum Tradescantianum.

9wpRB TIL that in Major League Baseball history, of the roughly 218, 400 games played across it's history, there has only been 8 occurrences in which the starting pitcher pitched a complete game shutout and hit a solo homerun, for a 1-0 win.

awoN9 TIL Astronaut Jim Lovell was asked if he would go on another spaceflight after an explosion almost killed the crew of Apollo 13 on its way to the Moon. Lovell was about to say yes. Then he saw a hand shoot up from the audience and slowly give the thumbs-down sign. It was his wife, Marilyn.