Post * KwkB — Curious Curator

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TIL The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter.

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WkVXL TIL of “the Tree That Owns Itself.” In 1890, a landowner left an oak tree and the surrounding land to the tree itself. When the original tree was knocked down by a storm in 1940, the new tree was planted from an acorn and is now known as “The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself.”

WkewL TIL that most of the world does not refrigerate their eggs.

dDRk9 TIL that, since the ovaries and fallopian tubes are not actually connected, it's normal for substances entering the uterus to spill out into the abdominal cavity at the mouths of the fallopian tubes. This includes semen, but also X-Ray contrast dye - and it's used diagnostically.

QM9L TIL A 1.91TB file is available for download that contains PI to 5 trillion decimal places

BeYe TIL a 10 year girl saved hundreds of people during the Thailand Boxing day Tsunami of 2004 after learning about the warning signs of Tsunami 2 weeks prior.