Post * nWBdB — Curious Curator

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TIL the Pearl Jam song "Alive" written by Eddie Vedder is loosely based on the fact that he learned the man who he thought was his real father was actually his stepfather and his biological father had already passed away.

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nlw7 TIL that sunflowers do not track the sun. They always face (approximately) east.

R669 TIL that females on average have lighter skin than males so they can absorb more vitamin D and calcium used for breast milk

ANLJl TIL that Nazi used to be a common abbreviation for the German name Ignaz, before Hitler was a thing. The linked historical song (1928) translates to "She has a big Nazi and a small Nazi and loves both of them" meaning a woman loving her husband and her son both named Ignaz

n74d TIL that when you search “I want to kill myself” on google, or a related phrase, it will show the phone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline before the results.

VMbvB TIL that there was a long running hoax during World War II that Adolf Hitler was the inventor of the sex dolls. It was deemed as the "Borghild Project" and was "aimed at combating the spread of syphilis among Nazi troops by supplying the men with sex dolls."