Post * KYlka — Curious Curator

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TIL: I learned about the NSO group who recently made headlines again, phone privacy and security is a scary rabbit hole.

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4XnZa TIL Sweden had colonies in New Jersey and Delaware, and one of the legacies of this colony is the introduction of the log cabin to American architectural tradition.

N7wVJ TIL in 1987, the entire world population of condors was 27. They were all captured and saved from extinction through captive breeding, leading to a world population of 488 in 2018.

GYreQ TIL that Australian Aboriginals had their own indigenous farming and animal husbandry practices rather than being just hunter gatherers, and that their methods were sustainable and tailor-made to Australia's geographical challenges

R5kN8 TIL about the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the USA entered World War I against Germany. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence.

GkXg TIL Steve Wozniak’s favorite video game is Tetris. He submitted so many high scores to Nintendo Power that they eventually stopped printing them, so he then sent in his scores under the name “Evets Kainzow”