Post * xjwg — Curious Curator

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TIL that the tumbling tumbleweed (Kali tragus), a long standing symbol of the lonely American West, is actually a foreign introduced species from Asia commonly called ‘Russian thistle’.

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BgmL TIL that Volkswagen was once the most valuable company in the world - for exactly one day.

Z8wVD TIL that the Danish language is so full of vowel sounds and guttural swallowed consonants that even Danish children have trouble understanding it, learning to speak at a much slower rate than in other countries.

nJ1b TIL that The Great Lakes are 21% of the worlds fresh water supply and that Ontario Power Generation is planning to bury radioactive nuclear waste one mile away.

p8894 TIL Chrysler once made a motorcycle out of a Doge Viper V-10 engine. The top speed was estimated to be 400 mph.

eggL TIL ‘Yak Shaving’ is the term for getting sidetracked by multiple other tasks before finally being able to complete what you originally started out to do.