Post * Xp0D — Curious Curator

› added 10 years ago

85

TIL In rural Austria, a girl would keep an apple slice under her armpit while dancing. At the end of the dance, she would offer the sweat-soaked slice to the man of her choice, who would eat the apple

Read more

P0an TIL that brown recluse spiders are rarely aggressive. In 2001, a massive infestation of over 2,000 brown recluse spiders was found in a 19th-century-built Kansas house that was occupied by 4 people, and no envenomations occurred.

wLGpW TIL the supermarket chain Publix has never laid off an employee

krjm TIL when a airplane crashed in the icy Potomac River, Arland Williams and 5 other survivors fled to the tail section. He was then tossed a lifeline from a helicopter twice and handed it off twice to others more severely injured than himself. He ended up being the only victim to die by drowning.

Vll4 TIL that the shortest St Patrick’s Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork. The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village’s two pubs

P18KZ TIL Jalapeños and Bell Peppers are the same species