Post * vPyBB — Curious Curator

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TIL Burt Ward once claimed that his penis was so big that ABC prescribed him penis-shrinking pills.

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woEZM TIL the United Nations declared drinking water as a human right...in July of 2010.

8eEDb TIL that Charles Darwin often gave his old papers to his children for them to doodle on. Thus, much of what survives of his original Origin of Species manuscript represents the best of his children's writing and drawings, rather than the best of his work.

6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.

e0mQJ TIL there's a town in the Netherlands that has no roads or cars and everyone travels by foot, bike or canal.

jNvDX TIL that 3 years after his death in 1658, Oliver Cromwell's enbalmed body was exhumed and executed. His head was mounted on a spike on Westminster Hall for 25 years until a storm blew it down. A guard found it and took it home. It was then in private possession until being secretly buried in 1960.