Post * 6ERL8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that The Sateré-Mawé tribe of Brazil have a ritual where they subject themselves to the sting of over 120 bullet ants, which have a sting 30 times more painful than that of a wasp.

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kOk6E TIL: When interviewed, a 70 year old man, who was once a feral child that lived alone with wolves in the mountains between the ages of 7 and 19 stated "he was disappointed in human nature and wished he could return to the mountains and leave society"

EL7d TIL that when Ken McElroy was murdered with at least two different guns, the residents of Skidmore, Missouri refused to identify the shooters. For decades he was known as the ‘town bully’ due to multiple crimes throughout town, and at the time was on trial for shooting an elderly grocer in the neck.

JYEwv TIL 70% of the human genome is transcribed but only 2% of it codes for proteins; the rest has been known since the 1960's as non-coding RNA or "junk RNA".

5Ydkk TIL that the color orange was called "red-yellow" until the English-speaking world was introduced to the fruit that was named "orange."

yQraX TIL That Big Whisky, Wyoming (the setting of Unforgiven, 1992) was built on a prairie in Canada, and was complete with real buildings and working appliances, built from the ground up by the crew just for the film.