Post * KYL66 — Curious Curator

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TIL that, while not very common, German-speaking countries have vomit sinks in a very, very few amount of clubs, bars, frat houses and supervised injection sites for drug users called a few different names such as Speibecken or Kotzbecken

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AyJl TIL of a 2005 British TV show that successfully convinced several members of the public that they were going into space as a space tourist. Even though they never left the ground and the whole show was an elaborate practical joke.

D17Pe TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.

N7YjQ TIL that Chinchillas have 50 hairs per follicle which is why their fur is so soft, like a fine thread count

e0AAD TIL about David Vetter, a boy lived almost his whole life in a sterile bubble because he had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Dubbed "the boy in the bubble", he died at 12 after a failed bone marrow transplant.

DQnpp TIL that fossilized lightning or fulgurite exisits and is formed when powerful lightning bolts discharge through the ground, which melts and fuses any nearby soil, sand, rock and organic debris into a singular metallic-looking lump.