Post * BaYe — Curious Curator

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TIL that Charles Dickens grew up during a ‘Little Ice Age’ and hence it snowed for each of his first 8 Christmases influencing his writing and hence today’s tradition of a 'White Christmas’.

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Z1Ao TIL that the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (now extinct) was male. It’s song was recorded in 1987. It was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. It died in 1987 as well.

6oVZ TIL that earth has several other companions additional to our moon, such as Cruithne and the trojan asteroid 2010 TK7, which is about 300 meters large, and revolve the sun coupled to earth’s orbit.

mMgo TIL there’s a mutant in the Marvel Universe named ‘Eye-Scream’ whose only power is to 'transform himself into any flavor of ice cream, including banana-split.’

v1n64 TIL that under Kim Il-Sung in 1956, North Korea adopted a national policy of self sufficiency named 'Juche'. By the end of his term North Korea had it's own textile industry built around a locally sourced material named Vinylon and had one of the lowest petroleum dependency rates globally.

R7X17 TIL Jain tirthankara(spiritual teacher) Neminatha became a monk because he heard the cries of animals being killed for his marriage feast. He left his marriage and freed the animals.