Post * LlYZ — Curious Curator

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TIL: To test the concrete walls of nuclear reactors, the US Government flew an F4: Phantom into it at 500mph (800km/h)

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EgM6V TIL dogs and raccoons have around 530 million neurons in their cerebral cortex, while cats and brown bears only have around 250 million neurons in their cerebral cortex. Herbivores and domesticated animals also tend to have the same amount of neurons as carnivores and wild animals.

6j88 TIL People don’t swallow 8 spiders a year, or likely any spiders ever.

WQEB TIL that a man was sentenced to be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed and then his body would be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way he killed the children

VMjn8 TIL that the first American newspaper, Publick Occurrences, was published September 25, 1690

VBVB8 TIL that Thuy Trang, the actress who played the original yellow Power Ranger, was one of the Vietnamese boat people who left Vietnam on a boat after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War