Post * 69NPQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Smokey The Bear had received so many gifts of honey and letters that he had to have his own Zip Code.

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LkkKP It depends on how they're deployed.

pRPN TIL 18-35 percent of the world sneezes when they look at bright lights, its called ACHOO syndrome

4XXdo TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.

4XJYw TIL that the BBC has a section where the news is written in Pidgin.

jNQ8N TIL that one of the findings of the Kinsey Scale study was that men trended towards homosexuality more so than women, contrary to the perception that women were more homosexually inclined. Kinsey speculated that this perception was a product of "wishful thinking" on the part of heterosexual men.