Post * 6eyX — Curious Curator

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TIL That there are nerves at the end of your rectum that distinguish between gas and feces. Sometimes these nerve endings become confused, hence, a shart.

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Z8NAv TIL Cuba suffered a mysterious blindness epidemic which baffled their doctors, in the 90s. A US doctor found it was in part due to bad diet & vitamin deficiency. Then, meeting a sufferer who admitted to drinking moonshine, he realised it was also due to alcohol contaminated with methanol

69ogQ TIL that a bandicoot is an actual animal and not a name made up for the Crash Bandicoot series.

awdNA TIL that Oak Bluffs on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has been a traditional summer destination to upper class African-Americans for over a century. Though many had lived and worked in the area as early as the 1600s, by the late 1800s it had developed into an exclusive resort town.

loew7 TIL At the end of WW1 in 1918, when revolutionaries toppled the monarchy all across Germany, King Friedrich August III of Saxony was asked by phone if he would like to abdicate willingly. He just replied "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better" and thus Saxony became a republic.

BrAAy TIL in 2003, Disney tried to trademark the phrase “Día de los Muertos”, the name of the Mexican national holiday, Day of the Dead. After significant backlash, Disney withdrew their application to the USPTO within a week.