Post * WkmR4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Steve Buscemi was stabbed multiple times breaking up a knife fight involving Vince Vaughn and Scott Rosenberg

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vPme8 TIL a quasi moon of Venus was named after a misprint on a child's astronomy poster

Zpg9G TIL that cicadas pee by ejecting water from their bodies and there’s a term called cicada rain.

dDa6j TIL that Henry VIII kept an African grey parrot who amused itself by calling the boatman across the water to the palace, who was then paid for his efforts

o01W TIL that Uluru is taller than both the Eiffel Tower and the Chrysler Building

WDE8 TIL that Japanese Buddhists would self-sacrifice by sealing themselves inside a ship boarded-up like a coffin. At sea they either pulled a wooden plug from the hull and drowned or died of thirst or starvation.