Post * vBOB — Curious Curator

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TIL: The morning-after pill does not work for women that weigh over 170 lbs.

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0wxgM TIL that Linuk IX, a communist-era housing project in modern Slovakia, is Europe's largest gypsy slum.

nWp9 TIL When visiting the US, Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk he left the White House, in his underwear, to go get pizza.

69Kbm TIL Bruce Lee was so dedicated in his craft as an actor and martial arts star that he had an operation to remove the sweat glands from his armpits because he believed underarm sweat looked unphotogenic on film.

mxo0M TIL Theodore Roosevelt's 1880 undergraduate thesis at Harvard was titled: "The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law" which argued for women's rights, including property ownership, and argued that women ought to keep their birth names upon marrying.

Z1Ao TIL that the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (now extinct) was male. It’s song was recorded in 1987. It was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. It died in 1987 as well.