Back from Toronto, and working on some more posts. In the meantime, here are the past week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts!
487. July 13: Half he, half she. A rare chimeric butterfly has been born in London. (via @lucasbrowers)
488. July 14: Technicolour toad spotted after 87 years.
489. July 15: Lobsters that buzz? (post by @doctorzen, h/t @jenlucpiquant)
490. July 16: Canadian physician Wilder Penfield, known for evoking vivid memories through direct brain stimulation. (h/t to @Namnezia!)
491. July 17: French chemistry teacher and balloonist de Rozier became the 1st known air crash fatality in 1783.
492. July 18: Apropos to recent journalistic scandals: the 1835 “great moon hoax“. (via @beckyfh and @rmathematicus)
493. July 19: Temperatures on Mercury can range from -280 F to 800 F — in a single day. Of course, a “single day” on Mercury is 58 earth days. Nevertheless, the range of temperatures on Mercury is quite remarkable.