Post * Woy4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Japan has over 50,000 people that are over 100 years old

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oBgDA TIL Mandrakes are real. In one superstition, people who pull up the root will be condemned to hell. The mandrake root would scream as it was pulled from the ground, killing anyone who heard it. In the past, people tied the roots to animals and then used the animals to pull the roots from the soil.

YX4G TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.

0NlL TIL – There is already a sound detecting system that triangulates the sound of a gunshot in the USA. Allowing for super quick and accurate responses without dependency on 911 call(s).

X00eR TIL popular foam mattresses contain shards of fiberglass, and you can be very fucked if you remove the removable top cover

Qpda TIL “Gringo” did not originate in Mexico to describe Americans, but in Spain in the 1700’s to describe foreigners whose speech was incomprehensible. Gringo likely came from the word “griego” meaning Greek, which in Spanish was used in the same way as English, “it’s Greek to me” (hablar in griego).