Post * oPAo — Curious Curator

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TIL that Grant Imahara from the Mythbusters is one of the few people in the world to operate R2D2

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5oWP TIL Neerja Bhanot, an air stewardess on Pan-Am 73 saved 41 American lives by hiding their passports, alerted the flight crew to escape, showed passengers on how to escape and then stayed behind to ensure everyone got off, then died saving three children from the terrorists. A true heroine.

l5bG 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.

kyXe TIL China has cities that were made to look like Paris, London, Venice and many more

kxbg TIL, when male lions take over a pride, they almost always kill the cubs. One reason is because female lions will not be receptive to mating while they are nursing, so killing the cubs enables the male lions to procreate.

9wkR7 TIL that the Sea Peoples were a group of sea-based raiders centered around the Mediterranean who contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse by attacking many of the major empires of the time including the Egyptians and Hittites. Today few records remain about them despite their massive impact.