Post * XEQ78 — Curious Curator

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TIL it took 128 attempts to get the script for The Simpsons episode "A Fish Called Selma" greenlit.

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nWjro TIL that in 2003, scientists "resurrected" an extinct species of Ibex, bringing back one living specimen, only for it go extinct again seven minutes later when the specimen died of a lung defect

R7rRl TIL In 1880, Felix Adler, the philosopher who would later lead America’s first national campaign against child labor, proposed a 100% tax rate on income above the point “when a certain high and abundant sum has been reached, amply sufficient for all the comforts and true refinements of life”.

VNeZ TIL that the ruins of Teotihuacan outside of Mexico City predate the Aztecs by 1500 years, and are older than the Coliseum in Rome.

pg6G TIL human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a major problem, and is even threatening the spread of disease. Nearly 700 climbers brave the world’s tallest peak each season but not all of them dispose of their trash, urine and feces properly.

nWx8B TIL of the Bayside Canadian Railway, a 200-foot-long railroad to nowhere in New Brunswick, Canada. Due to a loophole in the Jones Act, cargo between American ports is permitted to be shipped on foreign-built vessels if at some point it also uses a Canadian railroad.