Post * woxJW — Curious Curator

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TIL the moon's orbit around the sun is almost a perfect circle instead of a spiral. In order for it to become a spiral, it would have to orbit around earth 30x faster.

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JyGV TIL every year, Finland increases in surface area by about 7 square kilometers per year because it is rebounding from the weight of ice age glaciers and rising out of the sea.

DxVV TIL Joan Alexander, the original radio voice of Lois Lane, was fired, then showed up in disguise at the audition for her replacement. She got the part.

m1d8x TIL that Sassanid king Khosrow l invaded and sacked the City of Antioch, in which he brought captured citizens of Antioch to a newly built exact replica of Antioch called Wēh Antīōk Khosrow which literally translates to "Khosrow's better Antioch"

EMmX TIL that during filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back the actor playing Darth Vader was instructed to say “Obi-Wan killed your father” instead of “I am your father” in order to hide the secret twist from even the actors until the final movie

rKX4 TIL the Emerald Cockroach Wasp injects venom into a specific part of a cockroaches brain to stop its escape/survival instinct response, lays an egg in it’s abdomen, then its larva eats the organs in a specific way to keep the roach alive before it cocoons and leaves its body.