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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M61V TIL the show Deadliest Catch negatively impacts the entire Bering Sea crabbing industry by artificially lowering the operating costs of the boats on the show due to their subsidy from Discovery, allowing them to undercut the competition

9YAVD TIL Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" were recalled because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"

0wAWy TIL that Frankie Muniz doesn't remember being in 'Malcolm in the Middle'. His memory loss was due to several concussions and strokes.

XEbrR TIL Shigeru Miyamoto got the inspiration to create Starfox when walking through the gates at Fushimi Inari shrine. He thought it would be great if they could fly through the gates. The word Inari means fox and Starfox was born.

1N98 TIL that in 1881 an ice floe forced the Sharp’s Island Lighthouse off its foundations, after which it floated nearly five miles down the Chesapeake—with its keepers still inside—until it ran aground, allowing the men to escape unharmed.