Post * LloP — Curious Curator

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TIL the word “niggardly” is an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly,” and is completely unrelated to the racial slur “nigger” despite their phonetic similarity.

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78PLb TIL Kingsford Charcoal originated from Ford Motor Company selling scrap wood from the construction of their Model T vehicles.

wob48 TIL about Eugene Falleni, an Italian-born transgender man who lived in Australia under the name Harry Leo Crawford, was convicted in 1917 of murdering his wife, Annie Birkett. He had lived for years passing as a man, working in male-dominated jobs, and even remarrying.

GA675 TIL about the Lump-Of-Labor Fallacy, which is the misconception that there is a finite amount of work to be done in an economy which can be distributed to create more or fewer jobs.

OG411 TIL there is a rare phenomenon of lightning that strikes from the ground up into the sky

0PQM TIL Flying squirrels are actually native to most the United States, people just don’t see them because they’re nocturnal… and flying