Post * me9E — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a tree which produces white flowers which are infamous for smelling exactly like semen

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4y7J TIL that the word “legend” originally meant “things to be read”. In the pre-Medieval period, reading and writing were very rare, and so anything worthy of being written down was something very noteworthy, and thus “legendary”; worthy of being written down and read.

xVL91 TIL that according to a 2010 study from the University of Oxford, big butts result in healthy children because of the high amount of Omega 3 fatty acids (the good fatty acids) stored. These are the same fatty acids that are responsible for the normal development of the baby's brain.

0d6vy TIL Francis Ngannou worked in Sand mines as a child, was homeless in France, jailed as an illegal in Spain, lived in the forest where he cut himself open scaling barbed wire and was subsequently deserted in the dessert in Morocco before he ever trained to be a fighter.

4knQN TIL There is a Condition Called Alien Hand Syndrome that Gives Your Hand a "mind of its own"

4AL6 TIL The creator of Pokemon has a confirmed diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome