Post * vPjm7 — Curious Curator

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TIL every year 481 billion plastic bottles are sold, more than enough to bury the Burj Khalifa!

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1aNg7 TIL it's illegal to let your donkey sleep in your bathtub in Arizona. In 1924, a merchant near the town of Kingman let his donkey sleep in an old bathtub when a local dam broke. The donkey was swept away in the tub and the locals spent a lot of manpower rescuing the animal. The donkey survived.

d81br TIL dolphins have names for each other

8g6X TIL that scurvy was documented as a disease by Hippocrates, and Egyptians have recorded its symptoms as early as 1550 BC. The knowledge that consuming foods containing vitamin C is a cure for scurvy has been repeatedly rediscovered and forgotten into the early 20th century.

rNWV0 TIL the longest recorded sniper kill was in June 2017, by an unnamed Canadian sniper with a 3,540 m (3,871 yd) shot in the Iraqi Civil War, surpassing a 2009 record by over 1,000 m (1,100 yd).

69VOW TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa Caerulea is a naturally blue carpenter bee from Southeast Asia. They are non aggressive and their honey is as thick as peanut butter