Post * KOgN6 — Curious Curator

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TIL That Bloodhounds ears help them smell better. They act as a sort of "dust broom," dragging on the ground and trapping scents in their big ears and the folds of their skin.

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Gda1 TIL that skyscrapers in Hong Kong are designed according to Feng Shui principles. This includes large “dragon holes” cut through upper floors that allow dragons to fly through on way to the sea.

X0orX TIL that as the reigning monarch of 14 countries, King Charles III is allowed to travel without a passport and drive without a license.

gW87 TIL that in Amsterdam there was a protest against laws to ban psychedelic mushrooms where protesters filled super soakers with mushroom spores and sprayed the parks and lawns surrounding parliament

yk8e TIL that Haiti, cholera free for > 100 years, suffered an extreme outbreak after Nepalese UN relief workers dumped raw sewage into a stream. Hundreds of thousands sickened, around 10,000 dead and cholera is now endemic in the nation.

N9dN TIL that in Ancient Greece, they used pottery shards to wipe their ass after a dump. Sometimes these pottery fragments would be inscribed with the name of an enemy before being used.