Post * oRrP8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that wasps are just as important as bees

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1Lp8 TIL that the city of Seoul, South Korea has the world’s most encompassing fibre network, resulting in internet speeds of 1Gbps. It is also in the process of providing free wi-fi in all outdoor areas.

9YDJX TIL typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same type of storm, they're just called differently depending on where they form

XEdZj TIL Hatcher, the first Triceratops specimen to go on exhibit, was pieced together in 1905 from ten different fossilized specimens and became the centerpiece of the "Hall of Extinct Monsters," and later on underwent 3D replacement as a result of "pyrite disease" after 1998

8e7G4 TIL that Henry Ford is largely responsible for American schoolchildren learning square dancing.

xZLo TIL that British political sitcom The Thick of It had a ‘swearing consultant’ who would add more imaginative bad language to the scripts