Post * j646N — Curious Curator

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TIL that dolphins are scientifically classified as “toothed whales.”

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Bgg0D TIL Arthur Wharton, born Ghana, 1865, became the 100 yard world record holder for 30 years, the world's first professional black soccer player, a cycling champion, a professional cricketer and then a professional rugby player. He died penniless in 1930 and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave.

OG9Pe TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.

KY09a TIL The Caesar Salad was not made anywhere or when near Caesar in the Roman times. But instead made by an Italian American In Mexico.

wLy6o TIL in the 60s, NASA gave dolphins LSD in an attempt to get them to speak. A female researcher lived in a partially submerged house with one of these dolphins. It would become sexually aroused and attack her, so she started giving it handjobs

goLb TIL that US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis