Post * d0WB — Curious Curator

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TIL the ancient Japanese would use a wooden stick called a kusobera to wipe their asses. Kusobera literally means “shit spatula.”

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1ayjO TIL the last words of William Chapman, who was unarmed with his hands up before being shot by a cop in front of a Wal-Mart were reportedly "Are you going to fucking shoot me?"

grmOA TIL that DuPont, who makes Teflon products like non-stick cookware, had been dumping toxic waste chemicals from Teflon production in the waters of Parkersburg, West Virginia for decades.

KLk9 TIL that the Pyrenean Ibex, which went extinct in 2000, was resurrected in 2009. For 7 minutes, the species was no longer extinct, but the baby died of a lung defect shortly after birth.

VM5OD TIL that on April 20, 1979, then President Jimmy Carter, was fishing in the middle of a lake in Georgia when a rabbit swam up to his boat and tried to get in it before he scared the rabbit off.

W7v0L TIL that the longest word in the English dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, and it is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.