Post * lOg1 — Curious Curator

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TIL - That Mcdonald’s serves 75 hamburgers every second

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XEQRk TIL Roughly 90% of the world's cargo is actually moved by sea, rather than the world's roadways

R5b7j TIL about Carl Tanzler, a man that developed an obsession with Elena de Hoyos, a woman 32 years his junior, and two years after she died, he dug up her corpse and kept it in his bed for 7 years.

OoZlX TIL In addition to "pig latin" there is an actual phrase called "dog latin", which is effectively the creation of fake phrases made to sound like Latin, the most common example of which is probably "Biggus Dickus."

6K0J TIL that Silver Spoons in the Middle Ages acted as passports to determine if someone was a landowner. If you did not own a silver spoon you were recognized as a serf or slave. Hence the phrase “born with a silver spoon.”

NXX9b TIL about canopy piloting. A sport where you jump out of a helicopter to skim across a lake at a high speed.