Post * GYolG — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jack Nicholson grew up thinking the woman who gave birth to him was his sister. When he was 37 years old, he found out that his sister was actually his mother.

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rNRe4 TIL that bees don't fly in the dark unless completely necessary.

D1aDj TIL in 1791, France became the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults

E17Wp TIL Twitter did an April Fool's prank by announcing it was changing to a two-tiered service. The free version "Twttr" would not support vowels and only allow tweets with consonants, while "Twitter" would become a $5 per month service that supports any letters.

Eg1G7 TIL that the oil-producing cartel OPEC hasn't really had any power to set oil prices since the 1980s. OPEC members regularly cheat on their production quotas and mostly only commit to what they were going to do anyway, in the absence of OPEC.

WkaZo TIL about Post orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS), a chronic disorder in which a person develops flu-like and allergy symptoms after having an orgasm.