Post * dDx09 — Curious Curator

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TIL A French hospital was partially cleared out after an 88-year-old man came in with a WW1 shell lodged in his anus.

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NDbE TIL that hitting a punching bag does not produce a cathartic effect: It increases rather than decreases subsequent aggression.

LQOyv TIL that the Venetian Patent Statute, in 1474, is widely accepted to be the basis for the earliest patent system in the world.

OoyL TIL the “liquid bomb” terror attack, the one that caused the TSA to restrict the size of your shampoo and buy water inside the security gates, was thrown out of court and the ringleader totally acquitted. There was ZERO actual threat.

8e6BV TIL although there was a loud public outcry to ban Dungeons & Dragons in 1980s, adolescents who played D&D during that time were less likely to commit suicide than adolescents as a whole.

neyNr TIL that the Kremlin has a division of trained hawks that defend the building from crows. At first, keepers tried to use pre-recorded shrieks, but crows got used to them, so falcons-later hawks, were used. They are easier and cheaper to train. There’s also an eagle-owl that hunts at night.