Post * VBGE4 — Curious Curator

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TIL scientists have discovered a species of extremophilic nematode in Mono Lake in California called Auanema sp. It lives in a lake with 500x the arsenic concentration we can handle, 3 times as salty as the ocean, and has an alkaline pH of 10. It has 3 sexes, and carries its young like marsupial.

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VMkW8 TIL that fans of the band "The Killers" are known as "The Victims"

vP6Xr TIL Fig wasps die inside of female figs to pollinate them. If the fig is male they lay eggs inside and the circle of life continues.

R7YJ7 TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s

wL9dW TIL that up to 70% of men in Great Britain and 50% of men living in Western Europe are related to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun 'King Tut' (c. 1341 – c. 1323 BC)

KPeJ TIL, In 2001, A man was shot dead while testing a bulletproof potion. He’d asked a witchdoctor to make him invincible to bullets. After applying a potion for two weeks, a fellow villager shot him to check if it worked. He died instantly