Post * E1wyW — Curious Curator

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TIL Michael and Joy Brown gave their friend a paid year off in 1956 to write a book. Their friend was Harper Lee and she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”

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0w8lN TIL that Sitting Bull's remains were stolen from the Standing Rock Reservation, by his granddaughters, and buried in Mobridge SD. There a monument of Nancy Kicking Bear, a granddaughter of Sitting Bull, was erected.

G7k4 TIL There is a mythical animal from Asia called The Bonnacon that has curled horns and when startled sprays acidic dung

e0nG4 TIL On the tiny island nation of Tuvalu, everyday for about two hours before sunset hundreds of Tuvaluans, young and old, meet on the international airport runway to just hang out

KY086 TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old

Z8Z6R TIL that Suzanne Simard tested a theory that trees could communicate with each other. She discovered that when a Douglas Fir tree was in the shade, a Birch tree shared its carbon with the other tree.