Post * v1LYj — Curious Curator

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TIL that Johnny Cash was the first man outside the Soviet Union to learn of Stalin's death due to working as a Morse code operator, intercepting enemy military messages.

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dD4G8 TIL for the ancient Maya, turkeys were considered gifted with exceptional powers and harmful to humans from the nocturnal and dream space. They are portrayed as godlike figures in Maya religious imagery, and at least one Maya ruler included the word for turkey in his royal nickname.

b9OW0 TIL Dolly the Sheep was named after Dolly Parton's Cleavage. Dolly's cells came from a mammary gland, and a scientist "couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's"

6EODJ TIL that happy-go-lucky parody musician Weird Al Yankovic once recorded a diss track after his ex-girlfriend broke up with him. The song One More Minute describes all the horrible things he'd rather do than stay with her, and in the song's music video he tears up a picture of her on camera.

ddpj TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.

b9xXN TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.