Post * wLLbJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 2013, Dubai began outfitting its police officers with super cars.

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doVQ TIL when Florence Henderson arrived to do her Brady Bunch screen test, there was no one on staff to do her make-up. She went over to the adjoining studio where Star Trek was filmed and ended up in a make-up chair surrounded by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and “six or eight space monsters”.

BrwWL TIL, Silfra Iceland has a fissure where very experienced dives are able to touch two tectonic plates (North American and Eurasian) at once.

rRxgM TIL of leblouh, the practice of force-feeding young girls, in African countries where obesity is regarded as desirable. Older women called "fatteners" force the girls to consume enormous quantities of food and liquid, inflicting pain on them if they do not eat and drink.

PdXe TIL it took over two centuries for the 27th ammendment, the one banning congress from giving themselves mid term pay raises, to become law.

XGaj TIL in 2014 Japan debuted the world’s largest indoor farm using LED lights that emit wavelengths optimal for plant growth; The upshot: grows 2.5x faster than outdoors; reduces produce loss from 50% to just 10% and cuts water usage to just 1%