Post * epVbn — Curious Curator

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TIL about Bishnoi community in India who lay their lives in 1730 trying to save trees which were to be cut down at the orders of a local king.

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Z81aY TIL that it took Bose over 15 years and 50 million dollars to create the first noise cancelling headphones

ANYRw TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far.

4k0kN TIL there is a whale known as the 52-hertz whale (also known as 52 Blue) of an unidentified species that has never been sighted, but has been heard and known to exist since the late 1980s. There was also a feature length documentary about it that Leonardo DiCaprio was an executive producer for.

wLOOo TIL the Barbie Liberation Organization swapped the voice boxes in ~400 talking G.I. Joes and talking Barbies, then returned them to stores. Kids bought them and heard Barbie say "Vengeance is mine!" and G.I. Joe say "I love shopping!"

awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.