Post * xVAAB — Curious Curator

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TIL the US has the highest critical care hospital beds per capita, by a wide margin

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VBoW4 TIL In China’s Han dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD), the highly prized and gentle pandas graced the gardens of the emperors. Pandas were believed to have mystical powers.

R7EY8 TIL that footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.

P155Z TIL of the Galileo Spacecraft, which deployed a probe to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe was going over 106,000 mph when it reached Jupiter, fast enough to travel from LA to NYC in 90 seconds. The probe transmitted data from within Jupiter for about an hour before pressure crushed it.

GAkZN TIL: Until 2005, In-N-Out accommodated burger orders of any size by adding patties and slices of cheese at an additional cost. The limit was later disallowed to anything larger than 4x4 (four patties, 4 slices of cheese) after a famous incident involving a 100x100.

neNmr TIL there is a rare type of fluffy frost called hair ice that only forms on rotting wood. It baffled scientists for decades until 2015, when scientists determined that fungal activity was largely responsible for the ice formation.