Post * wLeDE — Curious Curator

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TIL an indigenous language in Mexico nearly died out in 2007 after the last two remaining speakers stopped talking to each other

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neeBo TIL In a study of nuns (so that living conditions, histories and environmental factors were “controlled” by their life choice), it was found that those who had demonstrated high optimism in early autobiographies lived on average 10 years longer than the more pessimistic ones.

neVQ7 TIL The first "bleep" censor machine was invented in 1921 after Vaudeville actress Olga Petrova appeared on a Newark radio station making an oblique reference to the need for birth control in violation of the Comstock Laws.

jNLgX TIL Nurhaci attacked China's Ming Dynasty, Korea's Joseon Dynasty, and his conquest of northeast China laid the groundwork for the conquest of China by the Qing Dynasty. He is also credited with ordering the creation of a written script for the Manchu language

b9vQ9 TIL In 1918, there was an outbreak of the 'Spanish Flu'. This was during WW1 and many countries had limits on what the press could write about, except Spain who was neutral. Thus, more reports came out about the flu from Spain causing people to think it was just happening there.

LkbOp TIL 20-yr-old Ahmed Alwan gives customers free stuff (with approval from his father) from his family's Bronx bodega if they can solve a simple math problem . For example, he'll say: "What's 9 x 9 - 5?" and then you get 5 seconds to grab anything from chips to speakers to hookahs.