Post * WNRN — Curious Curator

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TIL that the male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it’s business time.

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GApjj TIL the motorcycle used by Henry Winkler's character "The Fonz" on the show Happy Days was the same bike used to jump the fence by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.

JLVV TIL The man who wrote the documents of surrender signed by Confederate general Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse on this day in 1865 was a Seneca Indian named Ely Parker( born Hasanoanda). Upon meeting him Lee extended his hand and said, “I am glad to see one real American here.”

4XMM5 TIL that the original and mostly forgotten theme song for the 1963 pilot of Gilligan's Island was written by John Williams - then only a few years into his musical career.

M7178 TIL that sea bathing became popular in the 1700s -- women would wear loose gowns and sometimes had lead weights sewn in so that the gown did not float up in order to maintain their modesty

KYG04 TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence