Post * 5YNkr — Curious Curator

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TIL that monkeys are used to pluck coconuts in Thailand

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xyLo TIL that a man “blinked a book”. Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered from the Locked-in syndrome, could control only his left eyelid. By blinking his eye, he slowly dictated one alphabetic character at a time and, by doing so, was able to write his memoirs (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).

mx7RP TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the famous plastic Pink Garden Flamingo, also wore matching outfits with his wife every single day for 35 years

rRrXx TIL that perhaps the biggest reason Europeans had such an easy time settling the Americas was that they carried diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and measles. These were novel to the natives and eventually reduced their populations by as much as 90%, making conquest easier for the Europeans.

oBXQ8 TIL that notable pirates such as Blackbeard and Benjamin Hornigold united themselves under a "Republic of Pirates" which wreaked havoc across the Caribbean. Their island base of Nassau was recaptured after being without a Governor for 12 years.

DQ0xJ TIL that the Union Jack isn’t Great Britain’s legal flag and is only used as such due to precedent.