Post * o94L — Curious Curator

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TIL That spicy foods make us want alcoholic beverages. Spicy food lovers are also more likely to be alcoholics.

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NXa8b TIL tortoises can feel their shells. Their shells are not just a hard outer covering; they are living structures with nerve endings that connect to their central nervous system. The shell is a living part of their body.

w5n7 TIL okcupid has determined that vegetarians are more likely to enjoy giving oral sex and frequent twitter users are more likely to have shorter relationships.

DRRp TIL that the Casa Bonita restaurant from South Park is a real place and pretty much exactly as described by Cartman in the episode

7rBr7 TIL The band Foo Fighters was named after the term foo fighter which was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.

6vVY TIL that Mark Twain repaid his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal obligation to do so. “I am not a business man; and honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than a hundred cents on the dollar, and its debts never outlaw.”