Post * 4Xyo — Curious Curator

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TIL that there are planets without stars, that they could outnumber the stars in the galaxy, and could easily harbor bacterial life.

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LkOxm TIL The hourglass is only 700 years old, and came into use at almost exactly the same time as the first mechanical clocks.

DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.

Adox TIL After a 1942 shipwreck off Newfoundland, locals having never seen blacks before tried to scrub clean those survivors thinking they were covered in oil

kO8mW TIL that there is a tree that grows 40 different fruits. It is the result of chip grafting by Sam Van Aken.

P6Aw TIL the motto on the United Kingdom’s coat of arms is in French