Post * 8aJva — Curious Curator

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TIL the pink dinosaur in Mario Bros, Birdo, struggles with gender identity and is actually a male. His Japanese name Kyasarin translates to Catherine.

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VBjxk TIL in 1879 when the phone was becoming widespread and everyone was assigned phone numbers to make it easier for phone operators, the Bell Telephone company was initially worried that people might take offense to being reduced to a "number"

kOgJm TIL The song commonly called the Can-Can is actually a small section of a larger piece called Orpheus in the Underworld Overture, by Jacques Offenbach in 1858.

nD87 TIL that if you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.

9YJgX TIL 50 to 85 percent of oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean, mainly from phytoplankton.

oBMYR TIL that "Where's Waldo?" was originally published as "Where's Wally?" in the United Kingdom--"Waldo" is the American adaptation of the series. Additionally, Wally was drawn smaller and smaller and the series continued, making him harder to find in subsequent books.