Post * mxKoy — Curious Curator

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TIL that Owls actually have long legs and small body that is almost the same size as their Skull.

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N7nlE TIL The British royal family is named after Windsor.The royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917 so it would sound less German and chose Windsor because they had ties with the English town.

4kWM6 TIL: The word Rage bait is crowned Oxford's Word of the Year for 2025

OGYW1 TIL about the world's roundest object the Heason sphere. If this tiny sphere was blown up to the size of the earth, the height difference between the lowest point in the deepest ocean and the highest mountain would be just 10-15 feet.

WkO0d TIL: A biosimilar is a biologic medical product highly similar to another already approved biological medicine. Biosimilars are approved according to the same standards of pharmaceutical quality, safety and efficacy that apply to all biological medicines.

p80RA TIL that the inventor of the karaoke machine, Daisuke Inoue, never patented his invention because he “didn’t think anything would come of it.” 33 years later he was awarded the Ig Nobel prize for his work.