Post * b99Lj — Curious Curator

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TIL people occasionally find containers of butter in peat bogs that are hundreds of years old

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eaQb TIL that there used to be elephants on the islands of Sicily and Malta that had Islander dwarfism and only reached a height of 3 Ft. (90 Cm)

8ebQV TIL that the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, a small songbird from Hawaii, went extinct in 1987. The last male was recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, singing a mating call and waiting for a mate that would never come. He died alone, and his voice is all that remains.

j6Grv TIL: Video Games Have Shown a Strong Statistical Link to Improving Medical Surgeon Performance

PZDL TIL German was the second largest spoken language in the U.S. before it was forcibly oppressed during the First World War. Americans with German ancestry, are still the single largest ethnic group in the U.S.

8eLM8 TIL that in 52 BC, during the Battle of Alesia, Julius Caesar trapped both the Gallic forces inside and outside the city by building dual lines of fortifications. Despite their larger numbers, the Gauls were crushed, leading to a decisive Roman victory and the end of the Gallic Wars.