Post * GM9G — Curious Curator

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TIL that the reason spiders’ legs curl when they die is that spiders use the blood pressure spike from their heartbeat to extend their legs out. When they die their heart ceases to beat and their legs curl.

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aw1RJ TIL that dozens of Adam Sandler movies are connected by a web of characters and obscure references. Someone coined it the Sandlerverse.

KgNB TIL that a man was not only born with two functional penises, but with an extra limb growing out from between his genitals and anus, allowing him to seemingly shake hands with his own arsehole.

jEWR TIL that Europeans traditionally swam the breaststroke, while Native Americans swam the front crawl. When two Native Americans won an 1844 swimming competition in England, newspapers criticized their barbaric, “un-European” form. Europeans refused to use the faster front crawl for decades.

4Xk4g TIL in 1982, 7 people died from bottles of Tylenol which were laced with cyanide. The perpetrator has never been found.

o5DW TIL Texas uses elementary kids reading test scores to determine how many prisons and hospitals will be built in 10 years.