Post * epEDD — Curious Curator

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Today I learned that the United Kingdom and the State of Oregon have close to the same land mass. But Oregon population has only has about 4.25 million to the UK’s 68 million.

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6EmMJ TIL that the Turkish word for a turkey bird means "India," the Hindi word means "Turkey," the Portuguese word means "Peru," Khmer and Scottish Gaelic call it a "French chicken," Malay calls it a "Dutch chicken," and various dialects of Arabic call it a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken.

M7OWB TIL Filipino movie star Corazon Noble was bayoneted 9 times by WWII Japanese soldier while trying to protect her 10 mo baby, who died after being sliced open 3 times, then helped testify in the postwar crime trials, and is still alive today.

LyBp TIL The Danish ministry of the Enviroment has released, for free, a 1:1 virtual model of Denmark for Minecraft (Link is in Danish, but I’ll poste link to translated site in comments)

R7An8 TIL of Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. Despite it's latitude and being adjacent to a glacier, winters are actually very mild with typical temperatures no lower that of some populated parts of the Scottish Highlands.

WnrA TIL if a potato is exposed to light while growing, it will turn green and become poisonous