Post * Oo1J1 — Curious Curator

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TIL Squirrels are predators. In addition to small bugs, squirrels have been spotted eating birds, snakes, mice, and shrews. In one instance, a pack of Russian black squirrels killed and ate a stray dog.

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KONeE TIL youtube automatically censors the term 共匪 in ANY comment anywhere on youtube. It means 'communist bandit' and is an anti-communist insult directed to the Chinese Communist Party. It doesn't even censor any racial slurs.

Bgg5d TIL of Albert Lawson, a former pro baseball player who went on to form his own theory of physics and believed he found a way to live to 200 years. I

wLJY8 TIL that the reason there are tags on mattresses that say "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law" is the result of laws that require that the contents of the mattress be listed on the label. These laws were passed in a time when many mattresses were filled with a variety of undesirable contents.

nKyW TIL John Wayne, after some phone complaints, went down and told Frank Sinatra to end a party held in the suite directly below his own. A bodyguard confronted him, Wayne looked at him & turned as if to leave, then backhanded him and smashed a chair over his head. The noise stopped.

MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".