Post * aaZb — Curious Curator

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TIL the Nissan Z series was originally named the Fairlady by the president of Nissan in Japan. The U.S. head knew this wouldn’t appeal to the American male market, so he removed the Fairlady labels from the cars that arrive in the U.S. and replaced them with the internal code for the project, 240-Z

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gM9K9 TIL that along with blacksmiths, there are "whitesmiths" who work with tin or other light metals and "brownsmiths" who work with brass or copper.

OGxk7 TIL that the alien bodies retrieved at the 1947 Roswell crash were actually deformed children created by Nazi Joseph Melenge and sent by Stalin in an effort to create panic of a Mars invasion.

KYQxG TIL about the Janzen–Connell hypothesis, a widely accepted mechanism that asserts that a forest with more diverse species of plants will prosper because the more common a plant species is, the more specialist enemies it attracts.

R5rP6 TIL about “Madhouse Promenade” which comes from the survival story of RV Belgica in which after battling mental illness from the endless Polar Night, crew members took to walking in a circle around the ice stuck ship.

6Dnw TIL Starting in 1945, more than 8,000 Dutch people have adopted the grave of an American WWII soldier buried at Margraten, Netherlands. They visit regularly with flowers and graves are passed to the next generation. There is a waiting list to adopt a grave.