Post * vPjGr — Curious Curator

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TIL the Beechcraft KingAir outsold all of its competitors… combined.

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ne0Nb TIL that a Bangladeshi woman was still pregnant with twins in a second uterus after she gave her first birth only 26 days ago

kOEj5 TIL that although lunar maria (dark basins on the moon) are usually named after psychic states, the IAU accepted the Soviet-discovered-and-named Mare Moscoviense on the basis that Moscow is a state of mind

mOGP TIL: Up until 1978, the Mormon Church taught that blacks were once an evil race of Jews who were coloured by God for their wickedness

GYVBQ TIL When pursued by a predator, a fleeing quokka mother will eject her baby from her pouch as a decoy to escape

exyD TIL that The Infected in ‘The Last Of Us’ are infected by a fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis which can be found in some species of ants today. The fungus alters the ants behaviour, kills it, consumes its tissues and grows outside it, releasing its spores.