Post * 7rJOL — Curious Curator

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TIL George R.R. Martin wrote a Christmas Episode of Max Headroom

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b5Ea TIL that in the elections for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 1988 the population was so unhappy with politicians, that a well-known monkey of the local zoo received over 400k votes.

ewe4 TIL the word “echo” comes from a Greek myth where a nymph named “Echo” was cursed by Hera to only ever be able to say something someone else had just previously said. Hence the meaning of the word.

Rbv4 TIL Hellen Keller was a radical Socialist.

Wkpr8 TIL the first generation of stars in the Universe were all several thousand times more massive than the Sun and were made of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium. All the heavier chemical elements were formed within their cores. One of these stars was observed for the first time in 2015.

QYJe TIL that despite increases in computer power, each Shrek movie has taken about twice as many hours to render as the one before it. Dreamworks calls this “Shrek’s Law”.