Post * yr1v — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2009 a Russian woman was prosecuted for raping ten men, out of which nine men pressed charges, while one man said he loved it.

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ANLXa TIL of sky burial, a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop and left to decompose or be eaten by vultures.

nWVZr TIL The Toronto Maple Leafs have the longest active Stanley Cup winning streak

78V8M TIL Rembrandt's painting Bathsheba, an artwork famous for depicting a woman with breast cancer, was proven to not depict the disease after all, as scientists, after performing multiple simulations, concluded that the tone of blue the lesion has can only occur when the lesion is located at the skin.

0wRxv TIL Natural gas has no smell. Gas companies are required to add a chemical called mercaptin as a safety precaution, so people know the smell and can identify a leak.

9mxp TIL that Operation Christmas Drop, a training exercise where the US Air Force drops presents and supplies in Micronesia, is the longest running humanitarian air lift in the world. Supplies and presents have been dropped every Christmas since 1952.