Post * oPMo — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a Danish show where two men judge a naked womans body.

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M7Ko8 TIL Millions of Americans now entering midlife and old age were exposed to high levels of lead, a neurotoxin, as children.

69X4m TIL some Appalachians believe women should not can foods during their menstrual cycles because the lid won't seal and the food will spoil

GYJ4N TIL that 'figure skating' is named after a requirement that skaters draw figures in the ice, such as loops, figure-8s, and swirls, called "compulsory figures". Once making up the majority of a skater's score, figures were slowly reduced and eventually eliminated from competition entirely by 1990.

9YoQ TIL There is a mayor from Canada who is 91 years old and is currently serving her 12th term.

JpXv TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”