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A male praying mantis often continues mating after its partner has bitten its head off.

Tulsa’s Black district, Greenwood thrived as the epicenter of African American business and culture for the early part of the 20th century. Greenwood Avenue, commonly known as Black Wall Street featured thriving Black-owned shops, restaurants, movie theaters and other small businesses, as well as schools, a hospital and a library. On May 31, 1921, the Greenwood district was attacked by a white mob, resulting in two days of bloodshed and destruction. The massacre left hundreds of Black residents dead and 1,000 houses destroyed. The Greenwood District still exists today but after decades of urban renewal and integration, the area’s demographics and businesses resemble little of its storied past. Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre premieres Sunday, May 30 at 8pm. #RememberTulsa

🎶 Mmmhops 🎶 #MentalFlossFact

This is a cicada account now. Have you seen any in your neighborhood yet? #CicadaWatch2021

A photorealistic image of George Washington if he lived in the present day. https://t.co/cQD4V0zdGT

How friction is being used in welding appliances 🤔👨‍🏭 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9nNK2 🎥 @TWI_Ltd #engineering https://t.co/3H0ZCEZZtt

Just one man sent in 7.7 million fake comments alone. 🐱‍💻 #engineering https://t.co/L2x9tR09iy

Horace de Vere Cole was a wealthy aristocrat who would occasionally wander the streets with a cow’s udder protruding from his fly. When he felt he’d caused enough outrage, he would pull out a pair of scissors and calmly chop the thing off.

Amid growing criticism, China's foreign ministry said its rocket debris is unlikely to cause damage. 🚀 #engineering https://t.co/LTDMHqcv5c

'Couples desiring to conceive should vaccinate'. 💉😮 #engineering https://t.co/y7136FfUYB

“With sumptuous, visually stimulating spreads, this book (by the editors of the e-magazine Mental Floss) delivers on its promise to unearth strange stories, bizarre facts, or unexpected details about the books on our shelves.” Thank you to library_journal for this beautiful review of our new book-about-books, ‘The Curious Reader’ available for pre-order today. 📚 (Link in bio.)⁠ ⁠ #accessibility text: Statue of a man with planets and stars surrounding its head and a book above.

Bronze scrap performed exactly the same functions that modern money does now. 🤓 #engineering https://t.co/9byod3KfCy

We aren’t entirely 'made of stardust'. About 9.5% of the mass of the average human body is made up of hydrogen atoms that are older than the stars, formed in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1994, Norway’s most famous painting, “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo.

(⬅️Swipe) The game “Spacewar” was played on the PDP-1 computer.