Post * QVye — Curious Curator

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TIL Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only “doubly landlocked” countries in the world

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xnD1 TIL Although violet and purple look very similar, violet is a true color with its own set of wavelengths on the spectrum of visible light, while purple is a composite color made by combining blue and red

78eOx TIL about the Oncorhynchus rastrosus, also known as the saber-toothed salmon, an extinct species of salmon. Members of this species had a pair of small "fangs" protruding from the tip of the snout

a8dnb TIL office vacancy rates are at 20.5%

D1yAj TIL there's an ethnicity known as the "Magyarab". They are descendent from Hungarians mercenaries who settled in Sudan and Egypt under the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century.

x5b TIL: Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir earns lots of money based on publishing her unpublished works. Which is essentially, living off the words of another. And not Objectivism.