Post * WkgEN — Curious Curator

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TIL December 25th is the anniversary of Chinese activist Qian Yunhui's death, who was held down in front of then ran over by a large truck.

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wLbQY TIL that there's a company in the UK that takes wet coffee waste and turns it into things like coffee flavouring, and bio-fuel logs and pellets

Z8ELY TIL Honeybees can learn basic math such as subtraction and addition

yVMbX TIL that “The Lion Eating Poet in the Stone Den” is a Chinese poem in which every word is pronounced “shi.” It is readable in Chinese, but incomprehensible when spoken or when written in the Latin alphabet.

6W7J TIL the English invented the myth that carrots make you see better as propaganda during WWII to help conceal their nighttime vision secret weapon (radar)

QN7AM TIL That Palm Trees Are Both Vegetable And Fruit Plants, The Fruit is The Dates/Coconuts, And The Vegetable is Their Edible Core Called The "Heart of Palm", as Palm "Trees" Are Not Real Trees, As They Don't Contain Wood