Post * ZpoYY — Curious Curator

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TIL despite their small size, Kiwis produce one of the largest eggs of any bird and can be up to 20% of their body weight. That's comparable to a 120 lb woman giving birth to a 24 lb baby.

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5YeJD TIL that there was an episode of the Twilight Zone in which three astronauts survive a crash landing and wander through the desert until the last man alive realizes he never left earth. Rodd Serling would use a lot of this plot for a film he helped write called "Planet Of The Apes"

yVLyp TIL that the concept of curvature in space-time giving rise to matter and gravitation was predicted in 1870 by William Kingdon Clifford (although not rigorously proving it like Einstein managed)

QJAPp TIL Santa was skinny for most of his existence. In 1863, cartoonist Thomas Nast began drawing him with a huge stomach. Both the skinny and fat versions of Santa existed into the 1930's, when Coca Cola used a fat Santa in their advertisings, forever cementing that image in pop culture.

OG7aL TIL that asteroid 2023 BU, which passed extremely close to Earth in January 2023, came within just 2,200 miles of the planet, closer than many satellites in orbit.

dDXjB TIL that the star Betelgeuse gets its English name due to a 13th century translation error from the Arabic ‘Yad al-Jauzā’ (Hand of Orion) because some one mistook the Arabic letter for Y (ي) for the letter for B (ب). Written as part of a word, the only difference is an extra dot on the bottom for Y.