Post * 9wXVD — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Microraptor had four wings with fully feathered arms and legs for gliding. This flight setup doesn’t exist in any species alive today. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 120 million years ago.

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LRb0 TIL that the Aral Sea used to be the fourth largest lake but has been steadily shrinking since 1960. It is draining because the USSR diverted two rivers that fed the sea in order to construct two irrigation canals and build a cotton industry in Uzbekistan.

NQ1N TIL lighters were invented before matches

6yVw TIL that, Cards against Humanity bought an island to preserve wildlife

dGdE TIL that cave systems were recently discovered beneath Antarctica which are warm enough to wear t-shirts in, and in which it is said a “lost world” of new animals and plants may exist

X0bER TIL that a small isolated population of woolly mammoths survived until about 3,700 years ago — meaning they were alive when the Egyptian pyramids were already ancient.