Post * WkwV9 — Curious Curator

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TIL China used more cement in three years — between 2011 and 2013 — than the US did in the entire 20th century.

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nnEB TIL that fungi are the only organism known to cause mass extinction– and that they’ve already begun to eradicate frogs, fishes, bees, and most ominously, bats– a mammal. Valley Fever, now spreading unchecked throughout the American southwest, is a fungal infection….

MekxA TIL that the type of Nike sneakers worn by members of the Heaven's Gate cult in their 1997 mass suicide are highly sought after by sneaker collectors

8eK9Z TIL female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes rely on one another for "good reviews" of the best egg-laying sites (not too crowded, not too empty, but just right!) — a new insight that could inform future mosquito control efforts.

xVW55 TIL that humans are very genetically similar to rats and mice which is why we have similar diseases, genes, and organ types like primates too

GY894 TIL super weaners are elephant seal pups who, in an attempt to slow their weaning, will steal milk from nursing female elephant seals ("milk thieves"), or be adopted by another nursing mother elephant seal ("double mother-sucklers"). Super weaners are usually male, and may weigh up to 600 lbs.