Post * l7PLB — Curious Curator

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TIL: Some whales engage in 'trap' feeding behaviour essentially letting the fish swim directly into their mouths.

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N7Xj8 TIL about presyncope, a medical condition many people have in which their vision goes black for a brief time after standing up.

mxMLE TIL considered today the worlds largest living organism is a grove of 47,000 Aspen which are basically clones of each other. Together they would weigh around 6,600 tons (5,987 metric tons). The General Sherman sequoia itself weighs just a few hundred tons less, a testament to the size of a sequoia.

rPKx TIL If a male lion is neutered it’s mane will fall out.

R7nAw TIL Dr. Dolittle, the star of a series of lighthearted children's books about a guy who could talk to animals, was dreamt up by Hugh Lofting while in the gruesome carnage of the trenches of World War I, as a distraction, in letters to his children.

R66l TIL Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman’s divorce from her husband in 1950 (to marry her lover Italian director Roberto Rossellini) was so scandalous a US Senator proposed a bill that would require films to be rated not just for on screen content, but the moral character of the actors involved as well.