Things I Learned Today

Parts of Bruce Chatwin’s book, Songlines, about the songs of Australian Aboriginals, were fabricated. And Chatwin never consulted the Aboriginals before publishing it.

Thirty-one kids tested positive for COVID at Camp Pontiac. The camp costs around $13,000 per camper. One family sent a private jet to pick up their kid, a fact most kids would find enviable and most parents would find depressing.

Deer really really like salt blocks and will crash through (and largely destroy) two laboriously erected makeshift fences to get at one.

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