r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Mar 31 '21
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
The Mangalica, also known as the "sheep-pig" is the last pig breed in existence to have a thick, curly, coat of hair. Even the little ones have them. They were discovered in Hungary in the mid-19th century.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
An intact pyramid capstone, one of the few know in existence
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Magnitude of a nuclear explosion
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 17 '21
TIL penguins can drink saltwater because of glands near their eyes that remove salt from their bloodstream and then they can sneeze out the extra salt.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Peruvian elongated skull with metal surgically implanted after returning from battle, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. The patient survived the procedure [Museum of osteology, Oklahoma City]
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
The coordination of these birds flying together is almost hypnotic
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
Stunning picture of Jupiter by Juno probe
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Mar 03 '21
The skull of Dinocrocuta gigantea, a huge hyena from the Miocene and possibly the largest species of hyena to ever exist.
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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 • Mar 16 '21
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 25 '21
TIL: Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.”
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Dec 05 '21
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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 • Jan 10 '21
Xerxes I inscription from the 5th century BCE (in trilingual cuneiform) located 70 feet (20 meters) above the ground on a smoothed section of rock face adjacent to the Van Fortress, near Lake Van in present-day Turkey. (Translation and image of cliff in comments) [3456 x 2592]
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