Post * wLb5E — Curious Curator

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TIL about the Sakhalar, a Siberian group of half a million indigenous to a massive swath of Russia

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wo4gE TIL that static you can see on old analog TVs contain some of the microwaves from the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, from ~380,000 years after the Big Bang

ADkda TIL while in prison, US marines forced Saddham Hussein to watch the South Park Movie, which depicts him as gay and dating satan. The creators received a signed photo of Saddham in 2009 from the US Army 4th Infantry Division.

lPRB TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton) are French-based because in the Middle Ages the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats

AMAx TIL In the United States Brazil nuts were, until the 1960s, known by the epithet “nigger toes,”.

4k1pX TIL the often-cited study that says that black babies cared for by white doctors died at a higher rate than those cared for by black doctors was a lie. Black babies with a higher chance of dying tended to be cared for by white doctors, which skewed the statistics