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x6Oj1 TIL about the big sun dial in Cranmer Park in Denver, Colorado, which actually keeps time. The current sundial is the second one as the original donated in 1941 was destroyed by vandals with dynamite in 1965. A replcament was installed in 1966 after a citywide fundraising effort.
4kEnJ TIL of Hans Steininger, a 16th century German mayor who had the longest beard ever. It went as far as his toes, and he died after tripping over it.
N99J TIL: The Cuckoo Bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly “enslave” the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.
4Dkb TIL FedEx uses several empty cargo planes that roam the country’s skies overnight in circuitous flight paths, ready to divert on demand in order to accommodate unexpected package volume.
DLgJ TIL around 3000BC a meteor crashed into the Indian Ocean, creating a 30km-wide crater. This caused a tsunami to hit coastal areas, including Mesopotamia, which be the origin of the flood myths (such as Noah’s Ark)