Post * a9Mb — Curious Curator

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TIL that men have a line down their scrotum because the labia fuses together when the foetus makes the transition from female to male in the womb

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1kgW TIL in 2008 a Russian politician’s speech was interrupted by a flying remote control dildo

8aDeV TIL that more than 380,000 African American soldiers served in the Army during WWI. THE U.S. Army wasn’t comfortable with the idea of training black men for combat, so they were assigned to train under/fight along side the French

WXeL TIL that a 6 century B.C. Indian Physician wrote a book describing modern surgical techniques of incisions, cauterization, prostate g, urethral stricture dilatation, hernia , caesarian , fistulae and many others

gr9MD TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient

xLEb TIL In early versions of the board game Monopoly, there were no tokens. Instead, players were encouraged to use common household items like buttons and thimbles. The now-popular Monopoly tokens were released in 1937, modeled after the most popular items that players would use.