Post * VAvk — Curious Curator

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TIL the Australian skink (a lizard species) lays eggs in some regions and gives live birth in others, thus illustrating evolution in real time

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neeVB TIL Vin Diesel Is the voice of the Iron Giant

4o0X TIL when we lose weight, we’re doing so by exhaling carbon atoms that used to be stored in fat cells.

VM7gZ TIL A Marking Harness, a sponge of chalk or crayon worn on a Ram's chest, is used to tell which sheep a ram has mounted. (Some sheep end up looking polka dotted.)

b9XE7 TIL: In 1995, an artist named William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He continued to make art for the last few years of his life, both as documentation of his daily life and of his decline in cognitive function. Looking through these pieces, you can trace his cognitive changes.

pk8Z TIL that in 2000 a Mexican woman, Inés Ramírez, was forced to resort to self-surgery – a Caesarean section – because of lack of medical assistance during a difficult labour. She took 3 shots of hard liquor, then performed the surgery herself with a kitchen knife.