Post * VBAnQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bruce Springsteen originally wrote his 1984 song "Cover Me" for famed disco singer Donna Summer, but Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau decided the song had hit potential, and instead kept it for Springsteen’s album, "Born in the U.S.A". The song was later certified Gold in the U.S.A.

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MevD0 TIL that the Chehalis (Sts'Ailes) people of southwest Canada begin their count of months from the arrival of spawning chinook salmon (in Gregorian calendar October), and count 10 lunar months, leaving an uncounted period of around 70 days until the next chinook salmon run

GYgP4 TIL that when teens are taught that people have the potential to change their socially relevant traits over time, they tend to cope better with social stress, and end up earning better grades in school.

kgDB TIL that children start lying as young as age two, but a child who starts lying at a young age is more cognitively advanced than a child who starts lying art an older age.

XP6D TIL Alexander the Great’s will called for the “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction… to bring the largest continent to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties”

j66rM TIL that in the operatic song in The Fifth Element, composer Eric Sierra "purposely wrote un-singable things" so she’d sound like an alien. When opera singer Inva Muls came for the part, "she sang 85% of what [Eric] thought was technically impossible", the rest being assembled in the studio.