Post * QdJa — Curious Curator

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TIL that babies in Iceland are routinely left outside, alone, in below-freezing temperatures…to nap.

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nGer TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She allegedly still spends 2 months a year playing scratchers to win again.

j680Q TIL that 53.5% of the funding for Tor, comes from the U.S. government.

OomD4 TIL that the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone layer was the first treaty in UN history to have been accepted by all member states. If the treaty and it's actions had not been accepted, the ozone layer would've been so degraded by 2070 that just 5 minutes in sunlight would burn you.

p8Odb TIL Lufthansa is the world's largest purchaser of caviar, buying about 5% of world production.

1a8nV TIL that Niue is a member of some UN specialised agencies (such as UNESCO, and the WHO), and is invited, alongside the other non-UN member state, the Cook Islands, to attend United Nations conferences open to "all states".