Post * PMAG — Curious Curator

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TIL that bamboo can be used to make extremely soft yarn for weaving, twice as soft as cotton.

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wo8J8 TIL that the reason that "The Office, An American Workplace" (the in-world documentary in The Office TV series) began filming was to document the fallout from the suicide of a Dunder Mifflin employee named Tom Peets (mentioned briefly in S2 E8). The focus was later changed to the Scranton branch.

E1olX TIL of the Sour Toe Cocktail. a drink garnished with an actual human toe that has been dehydrated and preserved in salt, which originally belonged to a miner who had it amputated in the 1920s. It was accidentally swallowed in 1980 but since then seven more have been donated.

nnGG TIL a person who takes a sexually explicit photo of someone under age 18, even if it’s a self-portrait, can be charged with producing child pornography, a felony with a prison sentence of up to 20 years

E1yjP TIL in 1969, Katherine Hephburn and Barbara Streisand both shared the Best Actress Oscar in a tie. It was the only tie for a Best Actress award ever.

PQWw TIL a woman filing for public assistance failed 4 DNA tests to prove maternity of her children. She was taken to court and risked losing custody. It was later discovered she had absorbed her twin in the womb and her reproductive organs carried different DNA to other parts of her body.