Post * rNnX4 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Canyons are the OG 'desire paths' for water

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R5Mv6 TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch

78DLL TIL that Norse people celebrated Yule by burning logs for up to 12 days, feasting until they burned out, and believed each spark represented a new pig or calf for the coming year

QKGM TIL that the only countries in the world to use the Month-Day-Year format is the USA and Belize.

Lk1Y9 TIL that when Yuri Gagarin visited Manchester, it was pouring rain. He however insisted that the roof of his convertible remain down and refused an umbrella, saying that 'If all these people have turned out to welcome me and can stand in the rain, so can I'.

gr67L TIL fish need sleep, too, but when parrotfish sleep they wrap a cocoon of mucus around themselves – essentially, making their own sleeping bag every night that protects the parrotfish not just from predators, but from parasites.