Post * 4NrN — Curious Curator

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TIL that Muhammad Ali was vehemently anti-interracial marriage

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N7EVN TIL about an erotic fetish called vorarephilla. Which is a desire to get swallowed by somebody whole or to swallow somebody or something.

5VlwD TIL Platypuses are biofluorescent with a research study in 2020 finding that they glow bluish-green when exposed to a black light.

9Gxp TIL that Prison inmates are teaching testy dogs civility. There may be no better place for bite-prone animals to receive the constant care they need to break out of their own prisons. The men who train the animals learn responsibility, and acquire a skill they can use outside the prison walls.

X0QQE TIL Emir Abdelkader was religious and military leader who fought French colonialism in Algeria. After he got expelled to Syria, he sheltered Christians from massacre.

R7re9 TIL that In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper.