Post * awoo0 — Curious Curator

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TIL Son Goku was chosen as an ambassador of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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9j0Q TIL, the longest cable in the world is the SEA-ME-WE-3, which runs from Western Europe, through the Middle East and finally to South East Asia and it provides communication to 33 countries. It’s 39,000 km long.

XEygE TIL that doctors have been able to cure methanol poisoning by having the patient just keep drinking beers until the methanol has left their body through urination and respiration

16elr TIL that sharks existed before trees. Sharks have been around for more than 400 million years, while the first trees appeared around 350 million years ago.

ADVRo TIL bananas would not be nearly as available to most of the world if banana-pickers were paid a livable wage.

d8YWj TIL During the American Revolution, a Virginian Officer named Charles Lynch became so famous for hanging Loyalist they called it Lynches Law. Thus, the act of hanging a Tory became known as lynching.