Post * aB0N — Curious Curator

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TIL There are claims of a tiny subspecies of elephant living in the mountains of southern India that only grows to a height of 5 feet. The Kallana.

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O18Y TIL Building an averaged size house (79 sq m) out of Lego would cost almost 6 times more than building it from real bricks.

0w5PL TIL that Poland's official reason for not participating in the crusades was that there was no beer or mead in the Holy Land

JYRBQ TIL that while not enforceable, the U.S. has a flag code which advises Americans on proper flag usage. Examples include, No marking or changing the flag's colors, It must be lowered at night unless properly lit, a flag may not be used on a float without a pole, and no flag apparel of any sort.

7MRL TIL that Harvard University has severe grade inflation. The most common grade is an A, and the median grade is an A-

60xZ TIL Newborns recognize their native language. In an experiment on 4 day olds, researchers presented French babies with recordings of a bilingual speaker telling the same story once in French, and once in Russian. The babies,who had “overheard” French in the womb, showed a preference for French