Post * JMDQ — Curious Curator

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TIL When Tupac Shakur misbehaved as a child, his mother Afeni would make her son read The New York Times as punishment.

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

11j8 TIL Petrichor is the word for the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.

6EQkW TIL In 1710, famous author Jonathan Swift wrote an article on "the continual Corruption of our English Tongue" in which he described the word "bamboozle" as one of the words that were in his opinion, "corroding, if not destroying, the English language"

jO7v TIL that 19th century commercial whaling was made possible by the Giant Tortoises. Stacked helplessly on their backs, they could be kept alive without food or water for 6 months and eaten whenever. Giant tortoises also contained gallons of perfectly drinkable water kept it in a special bladder.

XE6QD TIL that Dutch parents leave their children in a forest at night and make them find their way back to camp on their own as a right of passage.