Post * 9Y6gp — Curious Curator

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TIL despite being the oldest of the 'golden girls', Betty White has outlived her co-stars

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KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.

gDvL TIL that a Catholic priest was kidnapped and castrated by KKK members, including the Gainesville mayor and police chief, at the University of Florida in 1924

KYWbJ TIL about Stoccareddo, an isolated Italian village known for its inbreeding, founded by a single family 800 years ago the village grew to 400 people today, 95% of which share the same surname of the original family (Baù)

nWgm9 TIL the Chinese Communist Party encouraged Yao Ming’s parents to reproduce as part of a program to create incredibly tall athletes

1Gad TIL three Mexicans got lost at sea and drifted from Mexico almost to Australia over the course of 9 months. They survived by eating raw fish and drinking rain water.