Post * yWj8 — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a German children’s book from 1845 about three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, Saint Nicolas dips the three boys in black ink, to make them even darker-skinned than the boy they’d teased.

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QJMRa TIL When opossums get overweight, their fat deposits cause their eyes to go cross eyed.

ylnw TIL That the Jaguar is in fact native to North American and there is still a population of these cats living in southern Arizona and New Mexico

D1Vwp TIL On June 3 1989 Chinese troops opened fire on students protesting in Tienanmen Square, a place whose name translates to "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and the news of this event is still censored by the Chinese government

yQL88 TIL During the Cold War the US began work on a huge secret telescope. The plan was to use the moon as a reflector, to spy on bounced signals from the USSR. It would have been double the size of the largest steerable telescope ever built to this day. All that remains now is the concrete foundation.

OWne TIL just while taxiing to take-off, the Concorde burned more fuel than a 737 flying from London to Amsterdam