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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gwdX TIL Elijah Wood is the voice actor of Spyro

wobr1 TIL if the US was a monarcy and George Washington was named king, Robert E Lee V would have a claim to the throne today.

Ad0o TIL Stephen King’s fictional town of Castle Rock was inspired by the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, in turn inspired the name of Rob Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film Lord of the Flies (1990).

JYlAQ TIL America sent a 2000 lbs manhole cover into space in 1957 during a series of Nuclear Bomb tests about 5 weeks before Sputnik, effectively winning the space race. During an underground test shot the manhole cover achieved a speed estimated at 6 times orbital escape velocity or about 150 000 mph.

gMoB8 TIL That Spiders Have Blue Blood Because In Spiders Oxygen Is Bound To Hemocyanin A Molecule That Contains Copper Instead Of Iron As In Humans