Post * N7joe — Curious Curator

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TIL Lima Beans are naturally toxic, have traces of cyanide, and must be fully cooked to illuminate it prior to eating

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XE19D TIL that Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan

Y7n9P TIL Hosono Masabumi, the only Japanese survivor of the Titanic, lost his job, was called a coward, and was shunned in Japan because he did not go down with the ship.

lo55V TIL that due to a copyright issue, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain, and can be downloaded for free on the internet. It is currently the most downladed film on the Internet Archive, with 3.1 million downloads.

v1414 TIL of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, an American businessman who died when the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, after giving his lifejacket to a young mother and her baby. He knew that he could not swim and that there were no other lifeboats available at the time. His body was never recovered.

8oLP TIL of the Sumatran Jungle Rabbit, one of only two jungle rabbits and the only striped rabbit in existence. It has hardly been seen and wasn’t photographed until the late 20th Century/early 21st century.