Post * dxM9 — Curious Curator

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TIL after Ken Jeong’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, she told him to pursue his dreams. He put a hold on his doctor career and began his comedian one.

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OoLo6 TIL that author H. G. Wells was a pioneer in miniature wargaming. In 1913 he published Little Wars, a rulebook for playing out battles using toy soldiers.

nvGP TIL Washington State has the highest minimum wage in the US ($9.19/hr; tips don’t count) and four states have minimum wages lower than the federal minimum wage (with Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15/hr)

8eyJL TIL In North America, kingfishers fish. But in tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia, most of the roughly 90 species of kingfishers don't “fish.” They hunt in woodlands, where the smaller ones, like the four-inch Pygmy Kingfisher, eat grasshoppers and centipedes.

Owgg TIL: Toby Spribille grew up in a trailer park without proper education; no American university would take him, but a German university decided to overlook it. In 2016 he overturned 150 years of biology with discovering that lichens are actually NOT alliances between two but three organisms

J1Am1 TIL that Red Pandas were named pandas before the bears were