Post * xkKw — Curious Curator

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TIL there’s a skyscraper in Japan that has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.

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v1oar TIL that Sobhuza II was not only the longest verifiable reign in history, but also had more than 1000 grandchildren at the time of his death earning him the name of the "Bull of Swazi".

yQRlX TIL if your car turn signal clicking sound is faster than usual, it is telling you that one if your turn signal bulb 💡 is out. 🤯

ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.

EEGP TIL that when he was challenged to a duel by Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck in 1885, scientist Rudolf Virchow selected two pork sausages as the weapons to be used.

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