Post * N7a0e — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Tongue-eating Louse that crawls into a fish's gills and essentially eats their tongue to live there for the rest of their lives. The fish just uses the isopod as its own tongue.

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b9YBj TIL King Frederick II used reverse psychology on his peasants who refused to eat potatoes because they tasted horrible. To stop the food famine he sent his guards to guard fields of potatoes and the peasants started stealing them and growing their own.

yQjGX TIL when NBC decided to air 'The Office' after the Super Bowl, execs encouraged the show's producers to cast celebrity guest stars. They booked Jack Black, Jessica Alba, and Cloris Leachman but instead of writing them in with the regular cast, they stared in a fake movie the cast watched.

LQxdv TIL that Indeed.com is owned by a Japanese Company called Recruit Holdings Co. This is the same company that was involved in the infamous "Recruit Scandal," which was an insider trading and corruption scandal that forced many prominent Japanese politicians to resign in late 1980s including a PM.

v1PeL TIL the Belgian national dish "les frites" was wrongly given the name "French Fries" by World War One American servicemen moving through Wallonia, a French-speaking region of Belgium, creating confusion with the invention’s nationality.

Y7BaZ TIL the Popeye's Meme Kid, a young kid made famous by a Vine in which he shoots the camera an uncomfortable glance, currently plays Division II American college football.