Post * rRk7e — Curious Curator

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TIL in Japan ~%99 of people are cremated. After cremation, the family uses chopsticks to transfer the bones out of the ash and into an urn. This is the ONLY time is acceptable to pass anything from chopsticks to chopsticks. Doing such outside of a funeral can remind bystanders of a recent funeral.

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EgKvp TIL a survey found that 46% of men were either very confident (20%) or somewhat confident (26%) that they could land a passenger plane by themselves in an emergency situation, as long as they could talk to air traffic control. Only 20% of women felt the same (7% very confident, 13% somewhat).

d8dQr TIL that porcupines sometimes fall out of trees and injure themselves on their own quills. As a result, they have evolved to produce a topical antibiotic on their quills to protect against infection from self-wounds.

nWnkr TIL that the film Independence Day (1996) still holds the record for the ‘most miniature model work to appear in one film’. The record is now expected to hold forever due to CGI advances.

78GWp TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.

b99KE TIL that Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, together with Mobe, attempted to perform an exorcism on the Pentagon and to levitate the building 300 feet into the air. At least 30 000 people partook.