Post * rNwVx — Curious Curator

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TIL Hawaii’s ecosystem has no seagulls

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e0OdE TIL honey bees can communicate by dancing, it is known as the "waggle dance" and by moving in a certain way in relation to the hive the bees can indicate direction, and by moving for a certain amount of time they can indicate distance, by doing this they can tell other bees in the hive food sources

GYYOE TIL that faking the moon landing in 1969 would have been harder than actually going to the moon

PYe6G TIL that in June 2017, a tire shop in Fort Worth, Texas, was robbed so often that the owner bought a guard dog. The next time the shop was robbed, the intruders stole the dog.

GYvv5 TIL the rhinoceros viper is found in the forests of West and Central Africa. This colorful and nocturnal viper is considered to be one of the most venomous snakes in Africa, producing both a neurotoxic as well as hemotoxic venom, although very few cases of human envenomation have ever been reported.

4X5WX TIL That during the Vietnam War, the American navy laid thousands of sea mines in the waters off North Vietnam. In August of 1972 a solar storm caused 4,000 of them to spontaneously explode in just a few weeks.