Post * YpGA — Curious Curator

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TIL that September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11, it was announced that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion.

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JLD8 TIL two species of geckos mated and they birthed a super-athlete female gecko that wouldn’t have sex with the other geckos. Instead she spawned new versions herself who spawned themselves, and now there’s a vigorous, speedy, mutant race of mother geckos cloning daughter geckos.

nm6Y TIL that Ben Cohen, co founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, cannot smell. The reason the ice cream is characteristically chunky is because in order to compensate for his lack of taste he would add big pieces of fruit to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food.

5gW8 TIL that in 2006, doctors removed two fetuses from inside a 2-month-old girl that had the rare condition known as Fetus in Fetu.

r5W1 TIL Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror. The only other animals that can do this are dolphins, great apes, and humans.

rRpQ4 TIL that the invention of early bikes was prompted by a vulcanic eruption in Indonesia that led to a year without summer and the starvation of many horses.