Post * 1v98 — Curious Curator

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TIL that men who ejaculate more than five times a week are a third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life.

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16oGD TIL Waldo is US and Canadian. To everyone else, he's Wally.

XRrD TIL the 2010 Global Tiger Initiative summit in Russia pledged $330 million donor dollars for tiger conservation. Four years later, no financial help ever reached the Ussuriskii Nature Preserve, home to some of the last remaining Siberian tigers.

BrDrW TIL of the Cat’s Meat Man, who walked around in the Victorian era selling scrap meat for cats out of a cart he pushed down the street.

v1gG8 TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant

D1yQV TIL that as recently as 1999, it was commonly thought that babies can't feel pain until they're 1 year old. As a result, even open heart surgeries were done without any anaestesia (1987, US)