Post * 6QwX — Curious Curator

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TIL the US Marine Corps is older than the United States itself, predating the Declaration of Independence by a year

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brG9 TIL there is a wild animal in East Asia called the Raccoon Dog which looks like a raccoon but is actually a dog.

AD9xn TIL that in 1988, a man with OCD and extreme germophobia tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. However, he survived, and the bullet completely eliminated his mental disorder without causing any other damage to his brain.

neOZd TIL According to a survey, 43% of American Cardiologists are overweight to obese.

yV8ew TIL a California woman filed a class-action lawsuit against Ferrero (maker of Nutella) after she was shocked to discover it wasn't healthy and that the chocolate spread she was feeding her 4 year-old daughter was full of sugar and fat. Ferrero lost and paid $3M over false nutritional claims

Y5Bv TIL Braille was originally developed as ‘Sonography’, a means for French spies in the Napoleonic Wars to communicate without the use of light. Louis Braille would later point out the flaws in the original code, creating the version we use today.