Post * dxyK — Curious Curator

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TIL little penguins in Australia are protected by snipers, to prevent poaching

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ep9bE TIL that sometimes saying that you "blew someone's brains out" isn't exaggeration; the "Kronlein shot" is "a gunshot wound to the skull in which the cranium is blasted open and large pieces of the brain ejected out of the skull"

x6jW7 TIL in the 1893 case of Nix v. Hedden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, for purposes of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, tomatoes are vegetables. The Supreme Court relied on the fact that tomatoes are usually used as vegetables since they're normally served with dinner and not dessert.

KOp8Q TIL Dolly Parton penned an original song and locked it away to be opened and played publicly only on her 100th birthday. No one else has ever heard it nor will anyone until January 19, 2046.

16r94 TIL That Supermassive Black Holes also have a habitable zone where planets can form

VMNek TIL that the Star Wars movie Rogue One had a alternative title called Dark Times, but was rejected during pre-production.