Post * YaWx — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1996, residents of Scunthrope, North Lincolnshire, England could not register for e-mail addresses because of web filtering restrictions on the substring “cunt” of the town’s name.

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LQ7OV TIL There is no globally accepted or clinical definition of a nootropic

4QB5 TIL our walking speed is affected by whom we’re with: men’s pace slows down by an average of 7% when walking w/ female partners they’re interested in; women walking together move the slowest; & men walking w/ male friends moved at speeds faster than either man’s preferred walking speed.

JXdm TIL that the Channel Tunnel, a rail tunnel with the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, has full mobile phone coverage.

ONX4 TIL that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith claimed to have transcribed The Book of Abraham from ancient Egyptian papyri, which experts later determined was actually common Egyptian funeral text.

5V4er TIL the fastest creature proportionate to its body length is a species of mite at 0.5mph. If it were the size of a human it would be the same as travelling at 1,300mph.