Post * DQneY — Curious Curator

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TIL That besides Las Vegas New South Wales has the highest amount of sloth machines at 95,000, and they’re mostly being used for money laundering.

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nenG TIL that Alan Rabinowitz, a renowned wildlife conservationist, devoted himself to the cause because he was a severe stutterer as a child, and he never stuttered when he talked to his stuffed animals.

mkVR TIL: Getting a blood transfusion won’t change your DNA and an episode of M.A.S.H. addressed this issue in which they tricked a racist soldier to think that he had turned black after getting blood from a black donor.

pyJZ TIL that the creators of the Curious George children’s books, Hans and Margret Rey, fled Paris on bikes only hours before it fell to the Nazi’s

v1Gmj TIL in 2006, a woman farted on an American Airlines plane and attempted to cover up her farts by burning matches. When the passengers reported the smell of burning matches to the crew, the flight made an emergency landing in Nashville, and the FBI was called in to conduct an investigation.

8mya TIL every year thousands of Great White Sharks congregate in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean. No one knows why.