Post * QNZDd — Curious Curator

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TIL in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, there is a giant statue of Santa holding a butt plug.

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D1m9D TIL There is a Mayan dollar scam in Mexico where vendors use made up dollars to trick tourists. For instance, a vendor offers a gemstone or carving for $3. You pass him a $10 bill, but he only returns $1 and claims it is 3 Mayan dollars which is equivalent to $9

oNVr TIL A University of Arizona study found 72% of shopping carts contain fecal bacteria and there is more fecal bacteria on a shopping cart handle than in a typical bathroom.

x6b97 TIL that Bancroft Hall at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis is the world's largest dorm, housing all 4,400 cadets (midshipmen) in a single building. The dorm has nearly 5 miles of hallways.

1LPd TIL that in 2015 more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks

dAW7 TIL that Sylvan Goldman, inventor of the shopping cart, had to hire actors to walk around his store pushing shopping carts to convince customers to use them. Men didn’t want to seem feminine by using them and women didn’t want to feel like they were pushing a baby buggy.