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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J1nKB TIL that in 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary went on an expedition to find evidence of the yeti. He returned with two scraps of fur that locals claimed was “yeti fur,” but was later found to be from the pelt of a rare Tibetan blue bear.

BeKd TIL: World’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, wants to use nuclear bombs for mining, bulldoze the great barrier reef to dump mining waste into the ocean and advocates a $2-a-day pay

69718 TIL that Blue-eyed people are more likely to become alcoholics. A gene lying near the OCA2 gene on chromosome 15 carries a mutation that leads to increased alcohol tolerance, and thus a tendency to drink too much.

YpnEx TIL that pill bugs (A.K.A rollie pollies) are actually crustaceans that adapted to live entirely on land

ZpVMB TIL that contrary to popular belief, Wabbit's Billie Sue was the first female video game protagonist in 1982, way before Metroid's Samus Aran in 1986.