Post * ADxjo — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1944, an American squadron leader was hit on the shoulder, and was brought back to the American lines by a German medic.

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ADwEn TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.

VMVvk TIL: In 1820, the median age in the US was 16.7 years old

pYxab TIL that before Dieselgate Volkswagon gassed Java Monkeys (and humans) with car exhaust to see if their diesel engines actually ran more cleanly than other cars

aw57Z TIL cocktails originated from horses who had their tails docked. In the 1800's they docked tails of horses that were not thoroughbred - 'cocktailed horses'. It later referred to a vulgar, ill-bred person, and finally an 'acceptable diluted alcoholic drink, not purebred, and raised above its station'

7v7Z TIL chimpanzees and monkeys have been in the Stone Age for at least 4300 years