Post * np9r — Curious Curator

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TIL: Some police Unions have negotiated the right to work half-drunk without fear of disciplinary action.

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7rx8p TIL that the Mantis Shrimp has one of the best eyesights in the animal kingdom. It’s hexnocular vision is so powerful that it sees six images at once, sees in 12 colors, and can polarize its own light. Scientists are now modeling its capabilities to detect cancer and internal injuries in humans.

PY05E TIL John Candy was going to play the role of Fred Flintstone in the 1994 movie The Flintstones, but died shortly before filming of a heart attack. He would have starred alongside his former Second City Television cast mate Rick Moranis, who played Barney Rubble. John Goodman eventually got the role.

ZpMgo TIL that gold medal winner Usain Bolt has three children whose names are Saint Leo, Olympia Lighting and Thunder.

gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).

lJWA TIL: Steel made since the 1950s is radioactive and cannot be used to make Geiger counters. Sunken German warships are used instead.