Post * D16NY — Curious Curator

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TIL there are species of owls who freeze mice to eat later — when they’re hungry, they just sit on a mouse until it thaws and eats it then

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jN8NX TIL about former American slave, John Berry Meachum, who began teaching classes for black people on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River to work around the state of Missouri's prohibition of black education.

9YW1r TIL actress Glynis Johns originally thought she was being offered the role of Mary Poppins. To soften the blow of telling her she was being cast as Mrs. Banks, Walt Disney announced she'd get her own song, then quickly called the film's songwriters, who adapted a deleted song into Sister Suffragette

rNKo1 TIL the 5th gen Chevrolet Camaro, released in 2010, was developed by Holden, an Australian car manufacturer owned by GM a the time. The current Camaro is still built on a modified version of the GM Zeta platform created by Holden.

W7xnA TIL about Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in the '20s and '30s. It included corporations based in Europe and the United States, like Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries, and Philips.

eA86 TIL that after seeing it hit a low point in 2009, Domino’s Pizza saw their stock grow 233 percent within a year after changing their pizza recipe.