Post * BJJD — Curious Curator

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TIL that men are more likely to have sons if they have more brothers and are more likely to have daughters if they have more sisters.

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k4bE TIL that on December 25th, the ancient Romans would celebrate Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, the birthday of their sun god. The holiday eventually morphed into Christmas.

mxgOp TIL about the Zambian Space Program of the 1960’s whose goal was going to Mars with a “Spacegirl”, two cats, and a Christian missionary.

m1b6M TIL about a 1997 incident at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Concord in which a section of a waterslide collapsed after students from a local high school piled into it, in an attempt to break a school record. The collapse caused 32 injuries and the death of 18 year old Quimby Ghilotti.

YZjA TIL contrary to urban legend, the woman who accepted Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award was in fact a Native American. Sacheen Littlefeather was born Maria Cruz to a white mother & full-blooded (but mixed tribe) Native dad. John Wayne had to be restrained from dragging her off stage.

jNMxN TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds that are identical to real diamonds that prices of diamonds are being driven down and De Beers has created a university to study how to identify "natural" and "man made" diamonds because no experts can tell the difference.