Post * xKy5 — Curious Curator

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TIL British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh

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mxrrM TIL there are more endangered snails than any other bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish put together.

0w79R TIL the octopus stinkhorn, or devil's fingers, is a non-poisonous fungus found all over the world. The starfish-shaped fruiting body emerges vertically and spreads out, making the gleba accessible to insects which facilitate the distribution of spores. Mature stinkhorns smell like rotting flesh.

LkbRr TIL there are 5.6 sheep per human in New Zealand. The ratio was 15 sheep per human back in 2015 and since has been declining

6EoeX TIL Oscar-nominated 'A Star Is Born' cinematographer Matthew Libatique, ASC was arrested at the 2018 Camerimage Festival in Poland for a drunken assault

gMlYD TIL a Cantor Fitzgerald employee survived 9/11 because she had been laid off less than 24 hours before the attacks. Afterwards, she learned she had never technically been fired because the HR employees that would have processed her layoff all died on 9/11.