Post * AOGd — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2009 a woman died at age 99 who had 1400 direct descendants.

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oRKW7 TIL that Edna Parker (1893-2008), the oldest living human at the time, lived in the same nursing home, and at the same time as Sandra Allen (1955-2008), the tallest woman in the world. Allen was 7'7".

kOea5 TIL Jonathan; a Tortoise Living on St. Helena, is the oldest confirmed living terrestrial animal on Earth. He is 186. When he was born George Washington had only been dead 33 years...and Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old.

PY6mw TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with religion and alchemy that he wrote far more words on them than he ever did about gravity or optics.

GY6Kj TIL most of the deaths caused by tropical cyclones are not caused by the wind but by the storm surge.

KOdoJ TIL Acne is caused because we evolved to lose body hair faster than our glands adapted, meaning they produce oil to lubricate hair that isn't there resulting in a build up.