Post * J1dmj — Curious Curator

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TIL Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews.

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oRYgR TIL that millipedes and are not insects, they are a category all on their own. Millipedes belong to the class Diplopoda, while insects belong to the class Insecta.

epEa6 TIL of a cant language utilized by Mormon missionaries in Japan known as Senkyoshigo. It synthesizes English function words with a primarily Japanese lexicon with English pronunciations of words. Some words include cook-chan, kanji jock, trunky, Eigo bandit, fud, bucho, golden kazuko and greenbean.

yVW8w TIL that the world's largest desert is not the Sahara, but Antarctica. While the Sahara is the largest hot desert, Antarctica is the largest cold desert, spanning over 14 million square kilometers.

xaWg TIL that Mcdonalds serves “McSpaghetti” in the Philippines.

9lNM TIL ‘The Bloop’, a loud and ultra-low frequency sound picked up by the NOAA in 1997 and heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, was not a “sea monster” but the sound of an ice shelf breaking off of Antarctica – an icequake.