Post * eegD — Curious Curator

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TIL Dolphins can see our skeletons and heartbeats via their sonar and have even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.

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wLlJE TIL of a bear that lives in the desert. The Gobi bear (Ursus arctos gobiensis) is a subspecie of Brown Bear that lives in Mongolia.

neVeB TIL Steven Spielberg did not storyboard the D-Day invasion scene in "Saving Private Ryan" in order to make things more chaotic and unpredictable. In the original script, the entire invasion is covered in only seven pages.

a9bo TIL that George Clooney was paid only 1$ for writing, directing, and acting in “Good Night, and Good Luck”, and even put his house on mortgage to pay for its production.

W7kvX TIL Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, was a direct descendant of one of the judges who served in the Salem 1690s witch trials.

1aw47 TIL in the late 1960s, some researchers reported catnip gave people a marijuana-like high, but it turned out they had simply mixed up the two plants.