Post * 7MRL — Curious Curator

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TIL that Harvard University has severe grade inflation. The most common grade is an A, and the median grade is an A-

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4DBa TIL that a danish garbage collector works 21 hours a week and make $80,000 a year.

negro TIL For his Hitler biograpahy, Peter Longerich employed the diaries of Goebbels and the drafts of Hitler’s writings for his research into Hitler’s rise to power and his descent into madness. His increasingly irrational behavior lead to critical errors that hastened the Nazis’ defeat

QJR4e TIL adult cats rarely meow to each other, so an adult cat meowing to human beings is probably a post-domestication extension of meowing by kittens, a call for attention.

woe48 TIL An aphid gives birth to babies that already have their own babies formed inside them. They are clones of themselves – they don’t need to breed with a male. Over a whole summer a single aphid could give rise to 250 tons of aphids.

VMR7p TIL In 2007, seeds were found frozen below the permafrost. Thought to have been buried by Arctic ground squirrels around 31,500 to 32,300 years ago in the Ice Age. Out of 600,000 seeds, three embryos successfully germinated into plants. Currently the oldest confirmed viable seeds on Earth.