Post * n8yr — Curious Curator

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TIL Koalas sometimes hug trees to stay cool, because some tree species can be over 5 degrees cooler than the air during hot weather

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5VKwD TIL that after Dwayne Johnson separated from his ex-wife Dany Garcia, he appointed her as his manager, and she has continued in that role ever since.

b9RJ9 TIL during the Kent State shootings, where the National Guard shot at and killed students protesting the Vietnam War, 58% of Americans believe it was the students' fault for the shootings

W7omX TIL Astronomer Edward Barnard discovered Amalthea, the fifth satellite of Jupiter, using an eyepiece that yielded 520x on the 36-inch Lick Observatory telescope. Barnard observed Saturn's moon at 2,600x at the highest but 1000x power is enough to show a disk

4w9X TIL 19th century biologist Sir John Lubbock experimented on ants by getting them drunk. He discovered that sober ants would carry their drunken ant comrades back to their nest, if they were from the same colony but they would throw drunk strangers into the ditch.

xprB TIL the villain Sarris in Galaxy Quest was named after film critic Andrew Sarris; upon learning this, Sarris said “It probably won’t make enough money for me to sue for $10 million”