Post * RWr7 — Curious Curator

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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing, “Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman”, illustrates the Medieval notion that sperm comes from the brain. [NSFW]

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QNReM TIL that the sixth most common language in the world has no native speakers (Modern Standard Arabic)

1aBY4 TIL that between North and South Korea lies 155 miles of no man’s land where hundreds of rare animals species thrive.

8JNG TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes

eZjE TIL of “Sailor Jerry Collins”, a tattoo artist who cured his own skin cancer by tattooing prescription meds, meant to be taken internally, directly on to malignant areas.

0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.