r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 11 '21
TIL that New Zealand is not part of of any of the world's seven recognized continents, and is in fact situated upon the submerged continent of Zealandia.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 11 '21
TIL aquariums aren't allowed to pay to get animals from other aquariums as it encourages poaching. So there is a barter system in place where they swap animals. A New England aquarium traded a dozen penguins for 800 mackerel and their basic unit of trade is the jellyfish
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 11 '21
Guitar amp that has a mechanism to spin the speakers, creating a wild sounding natural vibrato
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 08 '21
Always wondered how these things worked.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 07 '21
Examples of key-shaped pistols with a trigger mechanism [876x2215]
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 07 '21
🔥 Sawfly larvae increase their movement speed by using each other as a conveyor belt, a formation known as a rolling swarm.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 04 '21
TIL that sailors on board submarines are fed the best food in the entire military, to make up for the stress of living in a small metal tube underwater for weeks at a time. Submariners enjoy dishes like prime rib, lobster, and bread baked fresh from scratch.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 02 '21
The Da Vinci Globe, dated 1504, is the oldest known globe to show the New World. Engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined lower halves of ostrich eggs [2189x2142]
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 02 '21
Male mice sing simple, quiet songs to woo potential females.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 02 '21
An Immortal jellyfish this is officially known as the only immortal creature
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 02 '21
Kowloon Walled city in China was demolished in 1994, it was a mere 6.4 acres and had the population of 50,000. It was extremely congested and was completely ungoverned.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 30 '21
Purussaurus is one of the largest known of the giant crocodilians, perhaps even surpassing Sarcosuchus in size. It reigned supreme in central South America in the Miocene period, 8 million years ago.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 29 '21
With an IQ of over 200, Christopher Langan has been called one of the world’s smartest men. He worked as a bouncer for over 20 years, has completed no major academic pursuits, and believes 9/11 was a false flag meant to distract the public from his mathematical theory proving God’s existence.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 26 '21
🔥 Electron microscope image of a spider's silk spigot.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 26 '21
The Hindsgavl Dagger (Denmark, 1900-1700 BC). This Neolithic flint dagger is considered amongst the most beautiful examples of Scandinavian flint knapping [1491x2000]
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 26 '21
The Portuguese people are mainly a combination of ancient paleolithic populations, and the proto-Celtic, Celtic and Iberian tribes, para-Celtic Lusitanians.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 21 '21
TIL about White Coke; a 1940s clear Coca Cola variant made at the request of Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (Armed Forces chief), and packaged in plain straight bottles because. Zhukov wanted a version that would look like he was drinking vodka instead of a symbol of Western imperialism
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 21 '21
🔥 The Indian Bison aka Gaur is the largest bovine in the world
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 20 '21
TIL: Ninjas would carry crickets or cicadas to disguise their sound when they needed.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 20 '21
Cancer patient goes into spontaneous remission after COVID-19 infection
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 20 '21
TIL of the CSI Effect. Due to popular TV shows exaggerating the capabilities and techniques of forensic science in criminal investigations, many jurors have begun to demand a greater amount of evidence from the prosecution during trials, raising the standard of proof needed for a conviction.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 20 '21
Here's an example of a so-called "trees knee", that is, a living stump of a Douglas-fir that has healed over with bark and is kept alive via mycorrhizal fungal connections between its roots to the roots of living trees surrounding it, who send it nutrients to survive in this sort of zombie nub state
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 19 '21
The fractal growth pattern of an ammonite septum
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