Post * ZpVNG — Curious Curator

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TIL that sunlight on Pluto at mid-day would be equivalent to twilight on Earth despite being 40 times farther away from the Sun than Earth, bright enough to read a book.

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7r6jO TIL Most mammals lose their baby teeth once like humans (diphyodonts). The exceptions are manatees, elephants and kangaroos who can lose teeth many times over (polyphyodonts)

xV4M5 TIL: May 26 is National Sorry day in Australia, to commemorate the mistreatment of the country’s indigenous people.

v1jbL TIL that a man --Dharampal Singh, was stoned to death by monkeys in India. The animals had collected bricks from a dilapidated building nearby and reportedly pelted him with the bricks from a tree. His family lodged a formal complaint about the incident at Doghat police station in Uttar Pradesh.

oB1no TIL that in In 1683 a group of people in Holland (The Netherlands) were ice skating when the ice broke off and they floated to Essex, England.

jNpJM Today I learned that 93 percent of shark attacks around the world between 1580 and 2010 were on males.