Post * 5YnnP — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a city in Siberia called Akademgorodok created by Khrushchev to be an academic utopia filled with nothing but scientists with its own schools, single family homes and markets--considered luxury living at the time

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eALb TIL People with poor mathematical skills, aren’t necessarily bad at math because they are ‘ungifted’. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety’ that makes people perform worse, which sometimes leads to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more Math anxiety.

M7yv8 TIL about the death of Mary Jane Barker. She was a 4-year-old who disappeared alongside her friend Maria Freitta's dog in February 1957. In March, Maria found her corpse alongside the still-alive dog in a closet in a new vacant house near the Freittas' house.

wL7jE TIL that Gollum's Acceptance Speech for Best Virtual Performance at the 2003 MTV's won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

OoWye TIL that Stephen King published his novel Under the Dome in 2009, just a few years after an episode of The Simpsons with a similar dome-related plot was aired. King described himself as “gobsmacked,” as he hadn’t realized he had been beaten to the punch.

VM96D TIL that Civil War soldiers patrolling the Rappahannock River once engaged in a Christmas truce. On that day in 1862, greetings were shouted back and forth, and supplies were exchanged via toy boats: Northern coffee, sugar and pork for Southern corn, tobacco, and persimmons.