Post * Qk46 — Curious Curator

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TIL the Alaskan state flag was designed by a thirteen year old who had won a contest

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pY4rb TIL about Alvin Greene, a man who won the South Carolina Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate in 2010 despite having no cell phone, no computer, no lawn signs, no consultants, being unemployed, and living with his dad

R6Dl TIL Eurasians have 1-2% Neanderthal DNA and some Southeast Asians up to 6% Denisovan DNA; moreover, scientists were afraid studying this would justify racism.

4XoZN TIL Mansa Musa is the richest person that has ever lived. Simply valued as "Richer than anyone could describe" his sheer wealth dwarfs the $4.6 trillion of Augustus Caesar and the paltry $150 billion amassed by Jeff Bezos and the $100 billion scraped together by Bill Gates.

eoKL TIL that popular animal renamings such as “danger noodle” and “trash panda” are actual formal literary devices known as “kennings” (which have existed since the days of the Norse Eddas)

aaZb TIL the Nissan Z series was originally named the Fairlady by the president of Nissan in Japan. The U.S. head knew this wouldn’t appeal to the American male market, so he removed the Fairlady labels from the cars that arrive in the U.S. and replaced them with the internal code for the project, 240-Z