Post * P99g — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a neural condition called witzelsucht that causes people to speak in puns!

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78e67 TIL Bananas are the world's oldest fruit

4LjJ TIL - there is a woman going around the world using human-power alone. She is rowing from Japan to Canada starting 0900 tomorrow, and it is all for charity.

W7ZQd TIL Taco Bell has tried to enter the Mexican market two times - in 1992 and 2007. Failed both times. It was too expensive, people didn't understand what they were ordering because the names of the food didn't make sense to Mexicans and Taco Bell used frozen meat imported from the US.

WDL4 TIL the oldest person to have ever lived, Jeanne Calment, aged 122 at death, attributed her longevity to a diet of olive oil, port wine, and 2 pounds of chocolate every week.

VMe8B TIL the neolithic cave of Scaloria has a basin carved into the bedrock, with pottery placed on top of the stalagmites surrounding it. 70 pots were recovered, some still sitting in place after 7,000 years. The whole scene is looked over by a lone skull.