Post * 06rj — Curious Curator

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TIL that the music video for “Runaway Train” helped bring 26 missing children home

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4Xx8N TIL a California paleontologist created an interactive map to show users where their location was between present day and 750 million years ago

R7wb1 TIL Despite not being neighboring countries, Slovak and Slovenian are often confused for each other. Many political leaders have referred to leaders as being from the other country than they are from, and their national anthem and flags sometimes get confused for the wrong country.

5aQ9 TIL that as of this month, “Hampster Dance”, one of the first Internet memes, turns 18 years old.

xVX8o TIL Tolkien wrote letters with illustrations to his kids for Christmas, every year until his youngest was 14 years old.

nWeNr TIL that a group of Geoducks, the largest burrowing clam in the world, is called a "bag". The name Geoduck was derived from an indigenous word meaning "genitals", or a phrase meaning "dig deep", or perhaps both, as a double-entendre. So a group of Geoducks is literally a "bag of dicks"