Post * opBA — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a mineral called “Cummingtonite” named after its place of discovery: Cummington, Massachusetts

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jN1oX TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead

16ALP TIL that, the original head writer for the first three seasons of Pokemon Takeshi Shudo, had originally intended the show to end with Ash Ketchum being revealed as an old man who had Imagined all of his Pokemon Adventures

jvJR TIL there’s a lake in Russia that contains more water than all of the American Great Lakes combined

QJD5X TIL that the US has refused to continue funding the nuclear claims tribunal set up to compensate islanders that suffered radiation-related diseases from testing. So far it's paid less than $4 million of a $2.2 billion damage judgement. More than half of the affected islanders have died since.

lo5g5 TIL that the "pink for girls, blue for boys" color scheme didn't become common until the mid 20th century. Earlier in the 1900s it was actually "pink for boys, blue for girls".