Post * nWxn9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Icelandic Air allows up to a 7 day layover in Iceland at no additional cost

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Z8ALo TIL that autism often goes underreported in women because the "issues" in men are often seen as simply quirks in women. (i.e. social isolation, trouble making eye contact, obsessively collecting certain things, not wanting to be touched, overly touchy, etc...)

PY4YZ TIL Canary Islands are actually named after dogs, not canaries. Their name comes from the latin "Canariae Insulae", which means "islands of dogs"

6NvY TIL that as a teenager Vlad the Impaler was a hostage of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, and learned Turkish during this time. Later, while fighting the Ottomans, Vlad would disguise himself as a Turk, infiltrate and destory a series of fortresses.

l15B TIL we could fit the entire human race in New Zealand if we lived as dense as Manhattan

JQMQ TIL that the “Fi” in “WiFi” doesn’t mean anything (including Wireless Fidelity). The creators just called it that because it rhymed with “HiFi”.