Post * NEL6 — Curious Curator

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TIL there are tribes called ‘Cargo Cults’, who worshipped planes during WW2, believing they were gifts from the gods, and they built their own small airstrips and phoney planes to attract them. Some tribes still exist today.

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Zp7wG TIL about Jambo, a gorilla that protected a child who fell into his enclosure in 1986

E1jgP TIL that an American tea importer Thomas Sullivan accidentaly invented the tea bag when he sent samples to customers in silk pouches.

bZmZ TIL that even when a mouse population has enough resources- it will experience a societal breakdown when it runs out of space and then die off completely.

GYee7 TIL Only 220,000 Paraguayans survived the 1870 Paraguayan War, of which 28,000 were male. In other words, the male population of Paraguay post-war was only 13%.

Ypk77 TIL when Snopes creator David Mikkelson first began posting on Internet newsgroups in the late 1980s, he created the username "snopes" based on the surname of a family in a William Faulkner novel. Over time, "snopes" gained a reputation for his ability to thoroughly research and debunk false claims.