Post * oRyPo — Curious Curator

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TIL that an eye has 2 million moving parts along with millions of rods and cones cells.

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N7mjQ TIL In 1878, a spark ignited airborne flour dust within the Minneapolis Washburn A Mill creating an explosion that killed 18 workers. The ensuing fire killed four people and destroyed five other mills. The explosion made national news and led to reforms in the milling industry.

KYLYQ TIL that the infamous Whitest Kids U Know sketch "It's Illegal to Say..." was involved in a fairly high-profile Supreme Court case. The defendant posted an altered version of the controversial sketch's script with his wife's name being substituted in place of the President.

pR6e TIL, in a rare case of mutualism, a pod of Orcas in Australia would help hunt, capture, and kill Baleen whales.

Z8ge4 TIL that in 1968, the US army accidentally killed 6,000 sheep on ranch land north of its biological and chemical weapons testing facility known as the Dugway Proving Ground. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill - as it came to be known, was caused by the open air testing of a highly toxic nerve agent "VX".

4LKJ TIL that in 1983 a skull fragment was found in a bog in England and was reported to the authorities. They then pulled in a man suspected of murdering his wife who confessed to the act. The fragment was found to have belonged to a woman that died in 250 CE and the man was still tried and convicted.