Post * 1aDpO — Curious Curator

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TIL Tom Hanks Steve Martin, and Martin Short have their colonoscopies done together and even ride in the same car...

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N7Xk8 TIL Potato plants can grow fruit. They look like tiny green tomatoes and are poisonous.

86wV TIL NASA intoxicated spiders with different drugs to see if they could still build an effective web. All of the drugs reduced web regularity except for small doses of LSD, which actually increased it.

Yp0Nx TIL George Foreman was originally paid 40% of the profits for endorsing the George Foreman Grill. At the peak of the grill’s sales, he was making 4.5 million dollars a month.

oxx7 TIL in the Philippines, there is an island called Luzon. On this island there’s a lake called Taal Lake. In this lake is an island called Volcano Island. On this island is a lake called Main Crater Lake. In this lake there’s an island called Volcano Point.

6EMpJ TIL that Louisiana's Airline Highway was so named because it runs relatively straight--and only later, two major airports were built alongside it.