Post * 9YJKB — Curious Curator

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TIL: Rectovaginal fistula. Sometimes poop comes out the vagina.

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QWpX TIL President Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, was saved from a potential train platform injury by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

kOxE4 TIL in 1953 four editors from the Harvard Crimson newspaper stole a birdsh*t covered ibis statue from their rival- the Harvard Lampoon. The editors talked their way into a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador, and gifted the ibis to the USSR as ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth'

xVan5 TIL, Owl is known for the silent flight. Where other birds have stiff feathers that make a whooshing sound when they fly, owl feathers have soft edges that allow the birds to fly silently.This is important for owls, as they can swoop down on prey without being heard.

wob6 TIL A “devil worm” has been discovered miles under the Earth—the deepest-living animal ever found, a new study says.

Elw0 TIL there is a charity that pays $300 to drug addicts if they get sterilized