Post * exVb — Curious Curator

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TIL the Proboscis monkey’s Malay name means Dutch Monkey because locals remarked that the Dutch colonisers often had similarly large bellies and noses.

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yVY6w TIL about Anton Syndrome, in which some blind people insist they can see, even making up things they see though they are obviously blind

lo9yA TIL that viable sperm can be harvested from dead men up to 48 hours after death.

d8vj8 TIL Jake Perry has owned both of the oldest cats to ever live. He fed them dry food, broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream and an eyedropper of red wine, played them nature documentaries, built steps on his walls, and an enclosure in his backyard.

R5xd6 TIL of Timothy Dexter - a barely literate American businessman, who was desperate for public office, and became wealthy through a series of improbable investments.

0Xnv TIL:A man injected himself with snake venom during most of his adult life to build up an immunity to a array of venomous snakes. He lived to age 100, and survived a reported 172 snake bites. He donated his blood to be used in treating snake-bite victims when a suitable anti-venom was not available.