Post * MJb0 — Curious Curator

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TIL Nazis once bred violent super-cows in an attempt to resurrect the extinct aurochs of German lore.

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ZpVmG TIL that the Parker Solar Probe is going 700000 kph so it would take 33 minutes to reach the Moon From Earth.

kOAe TIL There’s a programming company that requires you pass a Grammar Test before proceeding to an interview, regardless of the quality of your degree.

DQYXY TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by.

g1lD TIL that the word “orient” comes from the Latin word “oriens”, meaning East because in the Middle Ages many maps were drawn with East at the top. So to “orient” them you had to turn them so that East was facing up.

LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.