Post * xVep1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that your foot falling asleep isn't the blood flow being cut off. It's the nerves being compressed.

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apWo TIL there is a German children’s book from 1845 about three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, Saint Nicolas dips the three boys in black ink, to make them even darker-skinned than the boy they’d teased.

M71AV TIL that the first clear aerial image of a city was taken on October 13, 1860 by James Wallace Black. It was shot from a hot-air balloon at 1,200 feet and was called 'Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It'.

nebMr TIL 52 years ago, the Dade County Sheriff's Office issued an arrest warrant for Jim Morrison, lead singer for the Doors. Morrison thought it was a practical joke, but later learned they added an additional charge for simulated oral copulation on guitarist, Robbie Krieger, during the concert.

0dNx5 TIL a Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. By September 2020, 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than 0.5% of the 72,000 classified meteorites.

ADnkx TIL Georgy Gruzinsky, a Russian nobleman, faked his death in 1798 to avoid a court sentence. He reappeared when he was effectively pardoned in 1802, and actually died in 1852.