Post * v1mYx — Curious Curator

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TIL South Africa developed nukes and voluntarily dismantled them. It's the only country in history to do this.

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loww1 TIL that traditional Sikhs carry 4 objects on them at all times: a comb, a bracelet, a blade, and a very specific pair of underpants in addition to keeping their hair long that make up "The Five K's."

WneB TIL every year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, after the last plane has left for the winter, the remaining scientists hold a screening of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, which is about a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes scientists trapped at an Antarctic research station.

jNENN TIL Ancient romans recycled their pee. They peed in pots and emptied them in a barrel which they left on the street when filled. A public service would pick it up to turn the pee into ammonia which they used as bleach, mouthwash and more

P11dn TIL A modest Georgian townhouse near Trafalgar Square is the only remaining building in the world where Benjamin Franklin resided. He lived there for 16 years from 1757 to 1773.

5YYok TIL it was proposed that the Bureau of Land Management cut all funding for the care of wild American mustang herds, and instead allow them to be sold to horse meat dealers who supply Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses.