Post * 7wxM — Curious Curator

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TIL Compton has its own Cricket club, who have met Prince Edward and played a game of cricket against the staff at Windsor Castle.

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grlOW TIL that the deepest place on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. It’s 36,201 feet (11,034m) deep. That’s almost seven miles! it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.

xVGR1 TIL that the sex of sea turtle hatchlings depends on the temperature of the sand in which they're laid. Cooler temperatures will produce an all-male clutch, and warmer temperatures will produce an all-female clutch, while fluctuating temperatures will produce a mix of males and females.

LQoVv TIL that Stuart Little isn't a mouse, he's a normal boy in "every way except that he is only just over two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse."

PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.

YLXd TIL that Adolph Hitler (whose first name means “lead wolf”) was fascinated by wolves and sometimes used “Herr Wolf” or “Conductor Wolf” as an alias. Also, several of his military bases were named after wolves.