Post * EYLW — Curious Curator

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TIL I learned there’s an annual 100-mile foot race so hard that only 11 people have even finished it since 1985. The date is secret, the entry form is secret, and the entry fee is $1.60 and a pack of Camels.

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e8G6 TIL Costco hasn’t changed the price of its $1.50 hot dog/soda combo since the mid-1980s.

dDAJQ TIL that Cornish game hens are just baby chickens

DegJ TIL That a Menger sponge has an infinite surface area and zero volume

ZpYo TIL that, whilst fighting in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell was shot through the neck. The bullet missed his main artery by a fraction, but he fully recovered - going on to write Animal Farm and 1984, amongst others.

wLngP TIL in 1973 before reality TV, an anthropologist sailed across the Atlantic with 11 attractive people of different races/sex/nationalities. Known as the "sex raft" he'd purposely done this to stoke sexual relations, create tension, and purposely sought danger to see if humans would act like monkeys.