Post * W9Z4 — Curious Curator

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TIL cats are banned from the world’s northernmost city of Longyearbyen because they pose a threat to the local bird population.

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gMwLX TIL tonsil stones can cause very bad breath. Tonsil stones are the small white hard objects that we spit out sometimes and which smell like death.

erEk TIL When adjusting for ticket price inflation Gone With The Wind is the all time biggest earning film in the US, grossing $1.6 billion domestically which is over twice as much as Avatar earned.

d4x8 TIL that Batman was created as a combination of Zorro, Dracula, and the Shadow

LkmZQ TIL: The Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 occurred when scientists found traces of a carcinogen in a batch of cranberries just ahead of Thanksgiving. People panicked and the cranberry industry ground to a complete halt, but the cranberry business survived. In fact, it went on to thrive.

d8wBE TIL that 'Yobai' ("night crawling") is an ancient Japanese custom where unmarried men could sneak into strangers' houses to have sex with women. The man would leave in the morning, and while the girl's family would know about this, they pretended not to.