Post * 4X55w — Curious Curator

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TIL that there are 42 buildings in New York City that have their own zip code.

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VM0m8 TIL Roald Dahl's last words were nearly “It’s just that I will miss you all so much,” until a nurse pricked him with a needle and he said “Ow, fuck!” then died.

W74VB TIL that in 1990s China, Pizza Hut customers turned “one-trip” salad bars into engineering feats. Using cucumber walls, dense cores of beans or carrots, and alternating layers of lettuce, fruit, and meat, they built towering salads that defied gravity-leading Pizza Hut to ban salad bars entirely.

4kZna TIL that in the town of Omachi, Japan, there are rice crackers with wasps in them.

nAGG TIL that in an effort to increase sales, some clothing stores use mirrors that make you look about 10 pounds thinner

lWoG TIL that the hoatzin is the last surviving species of a line of birds that diverged from all other birds 64 million years ago, just after the dinosaur extinction event, and that hoatzin chicks have claws on their wings