Post * mvKM — Curious Curator

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TIL That Vultures’ job in nature is so important that they convergently evolved. Vultures of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres are not even related, but serve the same purpose!

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Lky69 TIL of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a 19th century MP . He was involved in the reforming of insane asylums, responsible for several important child labour laws, and campaigned against the opium trade. As a result of his philanthropy he was known as 'The poor man's Earl'.

YpmRW TIL 'Desire paths' is the term for the paths that are naturally created by people's footfalls when they walk around paved paths. Some universities and hospitals have avoided these by waiting to see where they formed naturally, then paving over established desire paths.

R7Lw7 Australia’s fires have pumped out more emissions than 100 nations combined.

GY6Z5 TIL that a woman in France received a telephone bill of nearly 12 quadrillion euros. The phone company initially told her there was nothing they could do to amend the statement and offered to set up instalments to pay off the bill. Eventually, they admitted their mistake, and waived it altogether

N7Zne TIL that it was Theodore Hall, a scientist working at Los Alamos during WWII, who gave the designs of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. He did so because he did not want the USA to have a monopoly on nuclear weapons. He was never charged for his crimes.