Post * VBynk — Curious Curator

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TIL of Qube, a cable TV system in the 1970s that let viewers interact with the shows.

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XE8Pr TIL in 1860 a group of 76 Samurai went on a diplomatic tour of the United States. They were the toast of New York.

OGAB6 TIL some ants and many other social insects bury their dead. Some even have dedicated corpse-bearers and create whole tombs within their nests. The behavior is known as necrophoresis - a way to prevent pathogens and pests from affecting the rest of the colony.

7rJoZ TIL that, although the Soho district in NYC was named hundreds of years after the Soho district in London, only NYC's Soho is a functional abbreviation (South of Houston St.) while London's Soho was likely named for a hunting call.

dYr TIL Princess Marie Bonaparte, great-grandniece to Napoleon, discovered that the closer a woman’s clitoris is to her vagina, the easier she will orgasm. She later had her clitoris surgically moved, though it was unsuccessful.

0wOgM TIL in 2019 researchers studied DNA samples from Loch Ness and ruled out the presence of the large animals that are commonly said to have been behind the monster sightings. However, the researchers did not discount the possibility that the sighted animal was a big eel.