Post * xQGw — Curious Curator

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TIL that an e-reader packed with thousands of books is a billionth of a billionth of a gram heavier than if it were empty of data.

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4kXrb TIL about “teaser” stallions whose job it is to tell if a mare is ready for mating. He never gets to do the actual mating - the valuable stallion does. Kind owners sometimes give him a “consolation mare” to mate so he doesn't get sexually frustrated with his job.

amAb TIL The widowed mother of Henry VI was barred from remarrying by a law stripping her betrothed of wealth. Thus, she married a landless Welsh servant, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur. His name eventually became Owen Tudor, and his descendants would rule England for over 100 years.

dQpE TIL Salvador Dali owned a pet Ocelot named Babou

ymNM TIL that Carl Stalling, the composer behind Bugs Bunny, spent 22 years working every day with a 50-piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Studios. He ultimately scored in excess of 600 cartoons at the rate of one score per week between 1936 and 1958.

WkK8 TIL the coldest known place in the Universe is on Earth. Scientists have created condensates predicted by Einstein, that are cooled 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero.