Post * 1axDW — Curious Curator

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TIL: A Sloth Can Hold Its Breath for 40 Minutes Underwater,Longer than a Dolphin

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0wpkN TIL: When testing underwater acoustics during the cold war in 1960, scientists detonated a series of 300lb bombs off of Perth, Australia. This was heard three and a half hours later 10,000 miles away in Bermuda.

p8NEN TIL Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s.

yek8 TIL Science discovered almonds have 20% fewer calories than previously thought and challenge the way calories have been measured for 100 years

aw909 TIL The Color Of Water is "Slight Blue" and not "Colorless"

BrBEW TIL bills of $1k, $5k, $10k, and up to $100k used to be in circulation, a few of which were curtailed by Nixon in '69 to prevent them from being used in money-laundering