Post * Nj06 — Curious Curator

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TIL Aziz Ansari started a group called “The Food Club”, that visits restaurants dressed in suits and captains hats, and if they like the food, they leave a plaque which states “The Food Club has dined here and deemed it plaque-worthy.”

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MPNK TIL: HYDROX is the original and OREO is the knockoff. Sunshine made Hydrox in 1908 and Oreo copied it in 1912, yet Hydrox is perceived as the knockoff. Hydrox cookies have a tangy, less-sweet filling and a crunchier cookie that gets less soggy in milk. Hydrox will relaunch nationally in 2015.

W7Le9 TIL :Life expectancy at birth averaged only about 10 years for most of human history.

R7kGa TIL One of the methods used for identifying witches in the Salem Witch Trials, was to bake affected girls urine in a cake, feed it to a dog, and the controlling witch would then supposedly cry out in pain.

4OEo TIL that scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Turns out this was due to all ship traffic being halted which quieted the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate

Lkmrm TIL Electric Eels Can Remotely Control Their Prey’s Muscles