Post * awjX9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that lions are a species that mate very often through the course of four days, resulting in an average of 50 copulations per day.

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6E7BW TIL in 2012 a 22-year-old man on a business trip sent a wrong-number text to a woman 30 years older; she replied that she'd like to hang out anyway. They went to a concert together, started dating, got married, and in 2019 she needed a kidney transplant and he donated his kidney to her.

K1Z9 TIL that the traditional Japanese dish of Tempura was actually introduced to them by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th Century

J9L8 TIL when the creators of the TV show Sledge Hammer! learned it would be cancelled, they had the main character fail to disarm a nuclear warhead, destroying San Francisco. The episode got such good ratings that ABC renewed it, so the second season had to be a prequel since the entire cast was dead.

b9K09 TIL female shrimp get one or two eyes removed to increase reproduction- it’s called eyestalk ablation

DPOp TIL that Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, after serving two terms as President of the United States, sought and received his reinstatement as a General of the Army. Ike believed that history would hardly remember his service as President, but would never forget that he commanded the D-day invasion.