Post * d8WYd — Curious Curator

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TIL male black-widow spiders tend to select their mates by determining if the female has eaten already to avoid being eaten themselves.

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GxXj TIL that the ACLU has filed a lawsuit defending the KKK’s right to participate in Georgia’s Adopt-A-Highway program

xrB TIL that the most expensive liquor in the world retails for 1.5 million USD, and when sold will set a Guinness World Record.

p8eQA TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. His surgeon said it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest

k9aE TIL Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on MASH) has a deformed left hand. He hid it throughout his entire run on the series because it would have made Radar unfit for military duty. (pic in comments)

9w0nX TIL When Admiral Bobby Ray Inman was the director of the CIA, he would not fire homosexual employees as long as they signed a written promise to not give in to blackmail, and told their families to eliminate further blackmail risks.