Post * oRdNW — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1930 San Francisco had the world's busiest ferry terminal. 30 years later none were running.

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4XJkb TIL Mayon Volcano, the most active volcano in the Philippines, is renowned for having an almost perfect cone. Mayon Volcano Natural Park is located in the eight cities and municipalities that has jurisdiction of the mountain

e0PE6 TIL that in 1962, elephant bones were discovered under the Vatican. Decades later, it was discovered that they were the bones of Pope Leo X's pet elephant Hanno, who died in 1516 after doctors (in an attempt to treat constipation) inserted a gold enema up its rectum.

7gMM TIL that Matthew McConaughey, Adrian Brody, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were all in “Angels In The Outfield”

M7Xom TIL about the Bajau people, a sea fairing Austronesian group who have evolved bigger spleens, letting them store more haemoglobin-rich blood, which is expelled into the bloodstream when the spleen contracts at depth. They also intentionally rupture their eardrums.

YPwP TIL Mr. Rogers’ car was stolen, only to have it return by the thieves with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it”.