Post * xlYo — Curious Curator

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TIL Paul Boyd, animator on Ed Edd and Eddy was shot in the head by the police while on his hands and knees.

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QJx76 TIL The name "orangutan" is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning "forest", thus "person of the forest".

9ZAQ TIL that there’s ‘seizure response dogs’ who smell seizures 30 minutes before they happen and warn their owners.

8eEmL TIL that Göbeklitepe, an archaeological site in southeastern Turkey's Şanlıurfa province is described as "the zero point of history…"

P0Jw TIL the phrase “Money is the root of all evil.” is a misquotation of “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” which has quite a different meaning.

9YpN6 TIL that Queen Elizabeth uses signals with her handbag to send secret messages to her staff