Post * BJJD — Curious Curator

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TIL that men are more likely to have sons if they have more brothers and are more likely to have daughters if they have more sisters.

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loR8V TIL that John Dimaggio plays both voice actors for Marcus phoenix from gears of War as well as bender from futurama. Mind blown

71AO TIL that women in America began smoking cigarettes in public thanks to Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who used his uncle’s theories and press release technique to give women this freedom. He was actually employed by a tobacco corporation which needed to sell more.

e0Z7D TIL of the Compton Cowboys

wLdvY TIL of a Floridian man who committed suicide, and by using a weather balloon to carry off the gun, made it appear he'd been murdered.

VBwoG TIL that In 1985 the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein. The incident was said to have been resolved "over a case of white wine".