Post * OKbe — Curious Curator

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TIL that nannies would masturbate their children to put them to sleep up until the seventeenth century.

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neBXb TIL there is a link between psychiatric illnesses and Neanderthal genes

XEbGP TIL that ferrets can die if they don't have sex.

VBB0Q TIL about Alexis St. Martin who, after not properly healing after being shot in the stomach, was used in experiments for 12 years as doctors could view his digestion in real time through his wound. He lived another 58 years.

R79QQ TIL: The Clarendon Library in Oxford has a clock that has been powered by the same batteries since 1840. To date its bells have rung over 10 Billion times.

gMO0D TIL: A Chicago high school played Justin Bieber's "Baby" in between classes in the hallways. As a fundraising technique they made students pay to stop the song. They raised $1,000 in three days.