Curious Curator

Curious Curator

TIL that a Nigerian-born man named August Brown took part in the Warsaw uprising in 1944, WW2

TIL evidence of persistence hunting primarily comes from a single researcher and has no where near the support in Anthropology as it does in pop-science and running circles.

TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.

TIL that in Australia's worst aircraft crash no Australians died. In 1943 the crash of a USAAF B17 Flying Fortress took the lives of 40 US servicemen leaving only one survivor. No other aviation incident in Australia before or since has cost more lives.

TIL that Elliott Smith's death in 2003 is still inconclusive and the Los Angeles Police Department's investigation into the case remains open

TIL that rats are being trained and equipped with mini backpacks to aid the rescue of building collapse victims beneath the rubble!

TIL during the Pascal-B subterranean nuclear test in 1957, a 2000lbs steel plate cap was thrown into the atmosphere at 150,000 miles per hour

TIL in the Industrial Age, some foods were colored with poisonous things like various colors of lead and copper salts. Food coloring was used to hide bad quality and to imitate other foods as well. This made food poisoning common during this time.

TIL Goldfish can recognise classical music. A study was done in which researchers played Bach and Stravinsky. The fish were first trained to bite a bead when they heard both, then only one and not the other, and finally just different clips of one. One fish preferred Bach and avoided Stravinsky.

TIL There are plans to turn Buzz Aldrin's childhood home in New Jersey into a museum. The annual cost to maintain and run the museum will be about $290,000, including $160,000 in salary for four staffers