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curio

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Curio (noun) means an unusual object that people find interesting or intriguing.

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An unusual object that people find interesting or intriguing.

"Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention." — Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book (2013)

"Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?" — David Graeber, Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit (2012)

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