Post * kJ4GB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Ben & Jerry's employees are entitled to 3 free pints of ice cream every day

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R5p51 TIL of Bartolomé de las Casas, a 16th century Spanish priest who, in order to alleviate the suffering of Indigenous slaves in Spanish America, advocated using African and European slaves for at least most of the labor involved.

7rloX TIL about the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind.

P11pE TIL that a story exists in the mythology of the Chinook peoples where an anthropomorphic coyote is insulted, and later taught to catch salmon, by a talking pile of his own feces

rbYe TIL that in 2008 a man dressed up as Santa and used a homemade flamethrower and several guns to terrorize his ex-wife’s family as revenge for their divorce

6Rn8 TIL LED traffic lights have led to car crashes and deaths in the past, since they emit too little heat to melt snow & ice which block the lights