Post * grdWb — Curious Curator

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TIL A man ripped a leopard's tongue out in self defense and kill it.

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br4j TIL Catherine the Great of Russia had a room in her palace filled with erotic furniture

WDE8 TIL that Japanese Buddhists would self-sacrifice by sealing themselves inside a ship boarded-up like a coffin. At sea they either pulled a wooden plug from the hull and drowned or died of thirst or starvation.

VMdGQ TIL Polar bears often hunt walruses by simply charging at a group of them and eating the ones that were crushed or wounded in the mass panic to escape. Direct attacks are rare.

PYrbE TIL Homer Simpson is in The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.

KO4B TIL that in 1913 a Slovakian coal miner invented a parachute skirt. He demonstrated it by jumping off a building in Washington within eye shot of the U.S. Patent Office.