Post * wLOvE — Curious Curator

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TIL Tim Hortons, Hudson Bay Company, Canada Goose, Molson Canadian are all no longer Canadian companies

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loljr TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with “two gunshot wounds to the head.” His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.

Bgg8b TIL about Sokushinbutsu, a practice of self-mummification observed by Japanese Buddhist monks. The monks would follow a strict starvation diet until abstaining from eating altogether in order to lose as much body fat and moisture as possible. They would finally be locked in a tomb while still alive.

mbnp TIL that Fulmars, a type of seabird, vomit a putrid, fishy oil as a defense against predators or other disturbances. Not only does it smell horrific, but it’s lethal to predatory birds as it permanently glues their feathers together.

Lkmbd Til October 5th to October 14th, 1582 never existed

J17DB TIL less time separates us from T-Rex than T-Rex from Stegosaurus