Post * 9YEeD — Curious Curator

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TIL Police in Brazil ride buffalo when a patrolling because they can outrun criminals in rivers and swamps!

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GAV87 TIL: Arsenic was sold as a beauty product in the late 1800s, women would nibble on wafers or even wash with the poison, hoping to achieve an ideal complexion that was free of “freckles, black-heads, and pimples."

aPQb TIL the Italian Supreme Court ruled it’s OK to watch porn during your lunch break, after FIAT fired a guy for watching porn at lunch. He claimed it was only a glimpse, and there was no evidence that this was a habit that’s affecting his work, so the court ruled he had done nothing wrong

6JrJ TIL that British Columbia woodsman Francis Wharton shot a deer in the late 1960s but had no serviceable teeth with which to eat it so he fashioned dentures out of the deer’s own teeth and ate it.

R7Akw TIL "Said the actress to the bishop," is the original, "That's what she said."

rXDe TIL that color-blindness in humans happens when a person has two visual processing cones instead of the usual three. There is a flipside, that there are people who have a condition known as Tetrachromacy, where someone has four cones, potentially allowing them to see more of the visible spectrum.