Post * rNKYw — Curious Curator

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TIL That Court Jesters could freely mock the rulers and that their jesting was often a way to give guidance.

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8WA4 TIL that rats who were trained to press a lever for food stopped pressing the lever once they saw that it also caused another rat to receive an electric shock

4e86 TIL that during a CNN online chat with President Clinton in 2000, a prankster managed to log in as the President following a technical glitch and typed “I wish to see more porn on the Internet”.

7OLP TIL Lion tamers use chairs because lions are wired mentally to focus on one thing and attack it, with the four prongs of a chair coming at it, it totally flips its shit and backs off.

0gM TIL the moment after an argument when you think of a really good comeback but it’s too late is called “L'esprit d'escalier”, or “stairway wit”.

lyK7 TIL the TV show “The Amazing World of Gumball” had a Chinese ripoff called “Miracle Star”. Gumball recently aired an episode calling out and attacking its Chinese ripoff.