Post * l5bG — Curious Curator

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TIL South Korea once sent China thousands of trees to plant in the Gobi Desert to help minimize the “yellow dust” that engulfs the Korean peninsula every spring. Instead, China planted the trees along a highway.

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N7lPE TIL that a permit was denied for the production crew of "The Sopranos" to film the episode "Pine Barrens" at South Mountain Reservation by Essex County, New Jersey Executive James Treffinger, due to the show depicting Italians as corrupt, Treffinger was later convicted and imprisoned for corruption

wKlM TIL that in 2004 an elephant charged and killed a mother and her child, then proceeded to bury their bodies before leaving the scene.

Q6ak TIL More African elephants are being born without tusks. Ivory poaching may be an evolutionary pressure resulting in survival of the tuskless.

R5po6 TIL that an episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia as it showed Peppa being friendly towards spiders rather than fearing them. When it resurfaced online a few years later, it was banned again.

QJXWE TIL Left-handed guitarist Kurt Cobain was right-handed for everything else