Post * LkgDp — Curious Curator

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TIL that the U.S. government has guidelines on how to hunt a yeti.

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VBpw4 TIL Of the SS Baychimo, abandoned by her crew in 1931, she floated adrift along the coast of Alaska for 38 years and was last sighted in 1969

b6gG0 TIL Technically, you are never really "touching" anything because almost everything repel each other. When you are sitting in a chair, you are actually hovering above it at an unbelievably small distance.

6E1y7 TIL That Antarctica was originally called Terra Australis until the nineteenth century, when the colonial authorities in Sydney removed the Dutch name from New Holland. Instead of inventing a new name to replace it, they took the name Australia from Antarctica leaving it nameless for eighty years.

oB9MY Today I Learned that one can approximate the current temperature (in Fahrenheit) by counting cricket chirps for 14 seconds, then add 40.

Z8kYY TIL dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States. That equates to roughly 64 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.