Post * xa57 — Curious Curator

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TIL it exist a theorem called “The hairy ball theorem” that states “You can’t comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick”

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VBWEG TIL that an escaped slave of George Washington, Oney Judge lived her life as a fugitive in New Hampshire and provided historians the most detailed account of slavery at Mount Vernon

1aOlV TIL young Abraham Lincoln considered joining the Donner Party to California. The group is notorious for mass cannibalism after becoming trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for 5 months during the winter. He eventually declined due to a budding political career, a toddler and pregnant wife.

xdJ0 TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan has given science and music lectures at MIT, Harvard and NYU

0dZJ1 TIL according to the singer Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday), when he was born his father thought looked like “nine-and-a-half pounds of ground chuck” and nicknamed him "Meat". Years later, when he was a heavyset teenage football player, the players and coaches expanded the name to "Meat Loaf".

e0mk4 TIL that in the early days of home computers, late 70's to early 80's, computer magazines featured code listings that readers would spend hours typing into their computer in order to play a game or have a certain program.