Post * 6EOem — Curious Curator

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TIL Bob Barker plans to give all his money to animal causes after his death

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9w6nB TIL about the existence of the Vietnamese 'Tarzan': Ho Van Lang. He lived in the Tra Bong district jungle for decades. Ho Van Lang passed away due to cancer at age 52.

YpJ5P TIL the Taft-Hartley Act prohibits jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns

r0y0 TIL: In olden times, homes had thatched roofs in which domestic animals such as cats and dogs would like to hide. In heavy rain, the animals would either be washed out of the thatch, or rapidly abandon it for better shelter, so it would seem to be raining cats and dogs

X6YQ TIL in 2005, a man received a penis transplant for the first time in history after his own was severed in an accident. Two weeks after the procedure took place, it had to be removed “because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”

J4Xm TIL that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was changed to “the Sorcerer’s Stone” because Scholastic Corporation thought that children would not want to read a book with the word “philosopher” in it.