Post * lobBB — Curious Curator

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TIL that while rare, cow vagina is a delicacy street food usually eaten in South East Asia, especially Vietnam.

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PoLG TIL originally, jeans were cuffed because workers would purchase jeans larger than they fit to deal with shrinkage, and it later served for cowboys to place tobacco, cigarettes and coin in the cuffs as well

5Wgk TIL that the Amazon River spews so much fresh water into the Atlantic that surface water can be drinkable up to 200 miles from shore

9YMY7 TIL that dogs can tell time by smell. They can smell different times of the day, and how long you've been gone by how much your(owner's) smell has dissipated since you've left.

e4d4 TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 4 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize

PVOE TIL that in the classic 1938 Errol Flynn film “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” the producers wanted a realistic ‘look’ when people were killed by arrows. Instead of SFX or editing tricks, they just hired an expert archer to shoot extras wearing padding. Extras were paid $150 each time they were shot.