Post * R5dyw — Curious Curator

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TIL the inventor of the fire hydrant is unknown because the patent was lost in a fire too.

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E1W4X TIL that there is a spacecraft cemetery in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

wLbeY TIL Human sperm doesn’t wiggle as previously thought, it spins like a “playful otter”

RYD8 TIL In a case between two African-Americans, a New York jury found use of the N-word at the workplace creates a racially hostile environment. No excuses or exceptions.

JYgV8 TIL the founder of Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, hated how commercialized the holiday had become. "A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world."

naAW TIL that many stereotypic movements in zoo animals, such as pacing, are caused by lack of stimuli, i.e. boredom