Post * 6EBKW — Curious Curator

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TIL, Coolio attempted to crowd dive into a crowd of students, none of them caught him and instead he was beaten up with his shoes stolen

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NKQP TIL 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only The Americas

5YB08 TIL that the females of most bird species only have one functioning ovary (the left one). The right one exists, but does not develop fully and is non-functional. This is probably an adaptation to reduce body weight for flight.

P1nme TIL There is a wasp which lays an single egg inside a ladybird. Once the larva emerges up to 27 days later after feasting upon the ladybirds body, it turns the ladybird into a 'zombie', guarding it as the larva pupates in a cocoon under the ladybird. up to 25% of ladybirds survive this process.

8k0Z TIL in 1956, due to a combination of air friction and a steepened dive path, an F-11 Tiger shot itself down with its own gunfire

N7Lre TIL that Peter Glasser was granted a patent in 1973 for converting solar energy to electricity in outer space and beaming them back to earth as microwave energy using a large antenna (up to one square km).