Post * GYNl5 — Curious Curator

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TIL the color of your earwax can reveal issues like vitamin defficiency, infection, and an injured ear canal among other things

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xVR1o TIL that if you enter a body of water to escape a swarm of angry wasps they will wait for you to re-emerge so they can continue stinging you

loloa TIL There’s an American in Colorado that is convinced that he’s the rightful heir to the British Monarchy

XEnJE TIL of Andrew Mellon's "scientific taxation" policy: during the 1920s, the U.S. government paradoxically increased its tax receipts by $300 million after cutting taxes to zero for all but the wealthiest 2% — and then reducing their taxes, too.

6EO6Z TIL of the Gospel of Wealth - a manifesto written by Andrew Carnegie that urged the wealthy to avoid extravagance, reinvested into the community and for the state to impose progressive taxes on estates

PY50w TIL Wolfgang Engels, an East German soldier who had helped build the barbed-wire fences that initially separated the two Berlins, stole a tank and drove it through the wall itself. Despite getting caught in the barbed wire and shot twice, he managed to escape.