Post * 1aKMW — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1161 the Bishop of Winchester was the largest brothel owner in the UK and his prostitutes were called the Winchester Geese.

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p8KwZ TIL The Umbrella Academy comic was written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance

KOJ8J Mushrooms might save the world

5Vo1p TIL a 2015 study found that exposure to secondhand cannabis smoke under extreme, unventilated conditions can cause non-cannabis-using individuals to: feel the effects of the drug, have minor problems with memory & coordination, and test positive for the drug in their blood & urine.

VMl5Q TIL that due to Bengal famine in 1770 almost 10 million people died in Bengal in 4 years eliminating 1/3rd of the population. This led to huge reduction in land Revenues of the East India Company which then influenced British to pass Tea act to reduce its troubles which led to Boston Tea Party.

P4nV TIL Researchers at Yale did a study on teaching monkeys to use money to buy things like grapes, jello and other things. It turns out once the monkeys learned they could buy things with the money they started paying females monkeys for sex, who in turn immediately bought some sweets with it.