Post * GXD1 — Curious Curator

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TIL there’s a YouTube channel dedicated to women reading books while sitting on a vibrator

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mjPM TIL that in the late 80s, a mass moral panic swept across the US where many daycare providers were accused of ritual Satanic sexual abuse, with dozens jailed based solely on children’s testimony, who were coached by psychologists.

pYxpb TIL that in the United States, there are at least 17 counties, 70 towns and cities, 10 squares, 33 streets, 14 schools, a hill, a park, a river, four hotels, a mountain, and two theaters named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French General in the American Revolutionary War.

P1KDn TIL That the chair has been around for nearly 5000 years. The earliest example in the form of a sculpture from the Greek Cycladic Islands at approximately 2700 BC which was prior to Egyptian chairs, which were typically stools. Chairs with arms and backrests implied elite status.

kOYk5 There is an animal that grows a temporary 'mohawk' to impress females

O4a1 TIL that in 1996, a female gorilla named Binti Jua saved the life of a 3 year old boy who fell into her encampment by carefully carrying him to the door and growling at any approaching gorilla