Post * mXMy — Curious Curator

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TIL that while millions of North Koreans starve, the nation’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown DAILY from China to Pyongyang (on North Korea’s national airline).

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98Bm TIL Military dogs were branded as “equipment” and soldiers were ordered to leave them behind if necessary. A bill is now in place that makes them veterans of war and once they return home, they are retrained and re homed to finish living their lives.

VxVG TIL about the Old Man, a 30 foot tree stump that has been floating around vertically on Crater Lake for 130 years and scientists aren’t really sure why.

yQlW8 TIL that the proverb “curiosity killed the cat” was originally “care killed the cat”. In this instance, “care” meant “worry” or “sorrow for others”. The earliest mention of this proverb was in Shakespeare and it went unchanged for around 300 years. It suddenly changed in the early 20th century.

kOWxW TIL about the mobile offshore base (MOB) a proposed idea for a super-massive naval ship for performing military operations where regular land bases are not present.

kLe5 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.