Post * OogDX — Curious Curator

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TIL that wild birds in Australia can be heard swearing, having learned the words from escaped pets

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9wOXp TIL Richard Feynman taught a two-year introductory physics course at Caltech from 1961 to 1963 and his original students had no textbook—their only written materials were created "on the fly". These notes were later published and used as the introductory physics textbook for nearly two decades

yVPO8 TIL Mark Twain never completed his novel The Mysterious Stranger but it was published after his death. The 1916 Paine-Duneka edition was multiple stories spliced together that the editors patched together with their own writings. The original manuscripts were published in 1963.

vb9L TIL that the ‘technologically advanced’ South Koreans are forced (by law) to use Internet Explorer to shop and bank online.

yQjPV Today I learned that craving and chewing ice is associated with iron deficiency with or without anemia, and scientist don’t know why exactly

ElyW TIL when George R.R. Martin was young, he wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles. The turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in “sinister plots”.