Post * BrLAb — Curious Curator

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TIL Baby birds produce a little sac of poop the parent can easily remove from the nest to keep it clean.

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MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.

QKbe TIL George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the public domain in Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, and Oman

LpPZ TIL that Joan of Arc’s companion was a paedophilic serial killer whose victim count was in the 800s

BgVnK TIL: The youngest soldier in WWI was only 8 years old

5Ywn TIL several Astronauts, NASA, CIA, FBI, Army, Air Force officials and rocket scientists believe some UFOs are under intelligent control - but not from Earth.