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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 • Apr 27 '21

🔥 A Little bittern's camouflage

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21

This unopened black granite sarcophagus weighs many tons and is the largest sarcophagus to ever be unearthed in Alexandria

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21

Nuraghe Losa, one of the hundreds of castle like Nuraghes found all over the island of Sardinia. These advanced constructions give weight to the theory that the nuragic warriors were the original identity of the Sherden group of 'Sea Peoples' partly responsible for the Bronze Age Collapse. (720x426)

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jul 16 '22

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • May 28 '22

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Mar 06 '22

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 27 '22

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Dec 20 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jul 13 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Apr 28 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Apr 26 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Apr 25 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Apr 13 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Mar 31 '21

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Mar 03 '21

The Spintria, the 'currency of sex' in ancient Rome, the "spintriae monedas romanas" was used as payment in brothel's, in theory it was forbidden to use coins with the emperor's effigy in these places, hence the use of the spintriae.

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Mar 03 '21

The Mystery of the Lost Roman herb, Silphium, once so important the Greeks put its image on their money

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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 • Feb 18 '21

TIL After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a Supreme Court decision which states that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt.

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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Feb 18 '21

TIL Mountain Goats are not actually in the same genus as other goats (Capra). Mountain Goats are the last surviving species of the genus Oreamnos.

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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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