Post * grAZb — Curious Curator

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TIL Klingons have two dicks

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6mPm TIL that upscale steakhouses use dry-aged beef where the beef is hung on a rack to dry for several weeks. This process evaporates moisture in the muscles and promotes enzymatic breakdown of connective tissue which together yields very flavorful meat.

ZpoDo TIL that in medieval Europe, people used urine to bleach their clothing because it contains ammonia.

grM77 TIL one of London’s hidden rivers runs over a tube station, Sloane Square, held inside an iron conduit built in the 19th century.

rgKe TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy’s weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.

18W4 TIL Dr Jack Kevorkian was imprisoned for 8 years after performing voluntary euthanasia on patients. His tombstone reads “He sacrificed himself for everyone’s rights.”