Post * p8EPp — Curious Curator

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TIL that C.J. Hill (Known for her Slayers series) was the mother of TheOdd1sOut

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E7g0 TIL that Psychological research shows that roughhousing is important to childhood development. It teaches communications skills, rule negotiation, and how to communicate verbally and non verbally. In reality, children not allowed to horseplay are more likely to be more violent later in life.

6EB4m TIL that tomato sauce is not Italian at all but Mexican. The first tomato sauces were already being sold in the markets of Tenochtitlan when Spaniards arrived, and had many of the same ingredients (tomatoes, bell peppers, chilies) that would later define Italian tomato pasta sauces 200 years later.

8pYX TIL that an enormous insect, so large that it was known as a “tree lobster,” was thought extinct but has recently been discovered on a tiny island

v1VKK TiL at least 46% of Americans have had information leaked in data breaches in the last 5 years

mxGGO TIL, in 1915 William Wrigley invented direct marketing by mailing complimentary sticks of Doublemint gum to every household (1.5million) listed in every phone book in the states. He repeated that in 1919 mailing gum to 7 million households.