Post * PNBJ — Curious Curator

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TIL there’s a whole genus of spiders whose scientific names all derive from characters from the movie “Predator”

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W7MNo TIL that there is such a thing as North Korean Science Fiction, where the Supreme Leader is always right and Evil Americans wander "the depraved streets of New York, where, at night, jazz made people dizzy as if it had stolen their souls."

jn0M TIL that a mathematicisn named Danny Hillis built an analog computer that plays tic-tac-toe out of nothing but tinkertoys

OdMX TIL the last WWII officer surrendered in 1974 after living on an Island for decades, convinced that the war was not over. He died in 2014 at age 91.

v1NPr TIL that a huge number of chocolate companies source their chocolate from farms that use slavery and child trafficking to keep production costs low.

mObp TIL Latvians are able to get $1000 loans in exchange for their souls.