Post * oR70R — Curious Curator

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TIL Moose sound like a chainsaw trying to start.

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yWkw TIL all US Government issued pens are made by a company that only employs the blind (Skillcraft)

b97g4 TIL Penn & Teller designed a video game called "Desert Bus" in which the player drove an 8-hour bus route in REAL TIME between Tucson and Vegas. It is impossible to cheat, the only scenery are rocks and road signs & once the player reached the destination, they had to turn around and drive back.

EgEPd TIL Norsemen are NOT the original inhabitants of Iceland. Irish monks called the Papar are “native” to the island and arrived before any other humans.

O7ee TIL that in 1779, Thomas Jefferson submitted an anti-sodomy law to Virginia that would castrate men caught having gay sex. This law didn’t pass, and the state kept their anti-sodomy law in which death was the maximum penalty.

woPQY TIL The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by twelve countries who agreed to only use the continent for peaceful research purposes. It entered into force in 1961 and has since been acceded to by 56 total nations.