Post * Z0Ro — Curious Curator

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TIL there are more slaves today than at any other point in human history. Nearly half of which are in India.

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gXn9 TIL that when a bull moose is castrated, it immediately sheds its old pair of antlers and grows a new, permanent, misshapen pair called “devil’s antlers”.

awG4M TIL that the political terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" originated in the French Revolution,where anti-royalists would sit on the presiding officer's left in the French National Assembly, and the more conservative supporters of the monarchy sat to the right.

VM9EQ TIL the 1966 Rolling Stones song "Mother's Little Helper" was written about the hypocrisy of middle-age housewives, who often criticized the spread of drugs, but often popped prescribed pills like valium to get through the day.

OLR7 TIL The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, and if you lost all your empty atomic space, your body would fit into a cube less than 1/500th of a centimetre on each side.

BrOYb TIL Waffle House was founded when a restaurant manager and a real-estate agent met during the purchase of a house. They became friends and went into business together. Waffle House claims to be the world's largest seller of waffles, ham, pork chops, grits, and T-bone steaks, and 2% of all US eggs.