Post * MeKL0 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2014 a stray cat kept wandering into the lynx enclosure at the St. Petersburg Zoo in Russia in search of food. She was later adopted by the zoo after she and the lynx became friends.

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v1pPR TIL that the main character in Tomb Raider was originally intended to be a man until the developers began to worry that the character would be seen as derivative of Indiana Jones, so the character's gender was changed and Lara Croft was born.

VM0XZ TIL, the saying 'what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas' was invented in 2003 by an ad agency as a a need to brand Vegas for something other than gambling

7rgMX TIL During World War 2, an edible explosive was created under the code name “Aunt Jemima”-it was a mixture of flour and the powdery explosive HMX. It could pass for flour and even be used in cooking. It was smuggled by Chinese guerrillas to bypass Japanese checkpoints.

Wk488 TIL that Buffalo Wings are not named after actual buffalos (for some reason), but after Buffalo, New York where they originated.

KO9A6 TIL Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti released an album titled "Zombie" in 1976 that criticized the Nigerian government. As result, they murdered his mother and destroyed his commune.