Post * v11Er — Curious Curator

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TIL Dr. Ruth, the famous sex therapist, was a trained sniper with the Israeli Defence Force.

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9YEw7 TIL of 'Heaven's Gate' (religious group), who had participated in a mass suicide of 39 of its members (a coordinated series of ritual suicides) in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.

XQXk TIL An Elephant, Kosik, can speak 5 words in Korean, “sit, no, yes and lie down.” He creates the words by putting his trunk in his mouth and vibrating it. He is the only elephant scientifically proven to speak human words.

J1RBV TIL riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones

NAPP TIL some Hiroshima survivors grew “black fingernails,” which were strange rod-shaped fingernails that contained active blood vessels and bled profusely when they broke off.

p85RQ TIL American civilians own 46% of the world's guns, three times as many as all the world's militaries combined.