Post * 0MXL — Curious Curator

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TIL Chili peppers are native only to the Americas. India and Thailand didn’t have spicy food before Columbus

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ANbAx TIL Bulgarians Shake Their Heads for Yes and Nod for No

nmY TIL In Costa Rica streets aren’t named and houses aren’t numbered

9YjlM TIL about 1 in 100,000,000 lobsters are "cotton-candy" blue.

rN7yy TIL that Agent Orange has afflicted three million Vietnamese people, at least 150,000 of whom were born with severe birth abnormalities. Between 1961 and 1971, U.S. forces sprayed a class of color-coded herbicides across Vietnam's rural environment, including Agent Orange, to damage food crops.

ANGNg TIL: There are several studies that prove heterosexual men act differently around women, but in unexpected ways. Men are more likely to jaywalk, wait until the last second to dash onto a bus, take more risks while gambling, volunteer/donate more, etc. The effects are strongest in single young men.