Post * Y7Dlv — Curious Curator

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TIL 87% of households in Thailand own a motorbike

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9wAjG TIL the Minuteman ICBM had a smaller more portable brother, the Midgetman missile

4Xv4N TIL scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a 'supervoid'; an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across that is the largest object in the known universe. An estimated 10,000 galaxies were “missing” from the part of the sky it sits in.

nGQ7 TIL if a person has had part of their body crushed in an accident and trapped for more than 15 minutes, you should NOT free them without medical personnel on the scene. Crushed muscles break down into toxic byproducts, and releasing the pressure lets these flow into the body, killing the person.

4Xr0J TIL that in the 1930s, the Communist Party of Germany allied with the Nazi's (who they referred to as "working people's comrades"), to overthrow the Social Democratic government under the belief that a Nazi government would collapse and lead to a Communist one gaining power

Q4lL TIL The oldest animal ever found was a quahog clam named ‘Ming’ – 405 years old when they found it