Post * R5PK6 — Curious Curator

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TIL: The "Great Oxygenation Event" is responsible for Minnesota's Mesabi Range and other commercially viable iron deposits around the Great Lakes and the world. Iron dissolved in ancient seas precipitated during the Precambrian age forming thick layers of sedimentary rock.

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QNdWa TIL Italy was never a province of the Roman Empire, it instead had the special administrative status of "Domina provinciarum" meaning "ruler of the provinces"

PWre TIL that a 1984 study showed that hospital patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out onto scenes of nature had shorter recovery times, were better behaved and required fewer painkillers than patients assigned to rooms with windows facing brick walls.

XEbrR TIL Shigeru Miyamoto got the inspiration to create Starfox when walking through the gates at Fushimi Inari shrine. He thought it would be great if they could fly through the gates. The word Inari means fox and Starfox was born.

wxo7 TIL Pat Morita fought tuberculosis at a young age which resulted in him being in a body cast on and off from ages 2-11 and being told he would never walk, some of you might better know him as Mr.Miyagi from the Karate Kid films or Arnold from Happy Days

GYdkg TIL the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer story idea was initially rejected, as in the 1930s red noses were associated with alcoholism and drunkards. The author asked an illustrator friend to draw "cute reindeer," and these drawings convinced management to support the idea.