Post * vPDjK — Curious Curator

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TIL that a giant panda named Ai Hin faked a pregnancy to receive extra food, air-conditioned housing, and round-the-clock care from zookeepers.

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aWR0 TIL Jim Varney had a photographic memory and would shoot up to 25 “Ernest” commercials a day inserting different product names during different takes.

R7x1j TIL Chip Douglas first demonstrated it for the Turtles' vocalists H. Kaylan and M. Volman on a harmonium with a broken bellows, requiring him to play the song slowly. The slower tempo impressed Kaylan and Volman and consequently, the Turtles' recording of the song uses this slower arrangement.

8e9xV TIL that in the 20th century, native New Guineans were devastated by an incurable fatal degenerative brain disease called Kuru, "the shaking death." It was caused by eating cooked brain tissue during ritual cannibalism. Victims also laughed uncontrollably.

78meP TIL compostable plastic is only compostable in an industrial or commercial facility

OoL91 TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in one.