Post * pYnde — Curious Curator

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TIL Bonobo monkeys often have sex instead of fighting to resolve conflicts.

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NXwlQ TIL about the "invisible wall," an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible wall" was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through.

8JRX TIL a tax return check is actually money that the government borrowed from you - interest free.

69QZJ TIL, that Jimmy Carter's father, whipped the young Jimmy Carter for stealing a penny out of a Church Collection plate. He later remarked that it was the last money he ever stole.

lo4D5 TIL that in 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa farmers were asked what they were growing was made into, they didn’t know. The farmers knew cocoa was some type of food but they had never heard of or tasted chocolate until reporters brought them a chocolate bar to try.

rROBo TIL The term slush fund was originally a nautical term: the slush was the fat or grease skimmed from the top of the cauldron when boiling salted meat. Ship officers would sell the fat to tallow makers, with the resulting proceeds kept as a slush fund for making small purchases for the ship's crew.