Post * 4dpN — Curious Curator

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TIL the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company once sent out scratch & sniff stickers to educate the public on the smell of a gas leak, only for it to backfire when the smell of the unopened envelopes were mistaken for gas leaks.

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jN7yv TIL the term "space" (to represent a place beyond the earth) was coined by a female poet in the 1800s - Lady Emmelunw Stuart-Wooley in her poem "The Lady of Moscow."

OA41 TIL ~900 Germans from the town of Demmin committed suicide in panic of the advancing Red Army. Mothers walked into rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. One man shot three young children, then their mothers, then his wife, then himself, but survived as a blind man.

VMDJ8 TIL that the reason we get a runny nose after crying is because the leftover fluid that wasn’t shed through tears gets drained into the nose through the “lacrimal point” (that weird mysterious hole on your lower eyelid).

mYvx TIL that girls who grow up with a stepfather begin menstruating about 1 year earlier than those who grow up with their biological father

XXVj TIL Two weeks after he co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share of the company. That 10% stock($800 at the time) would now be worth approximately $60 Billion had he held onto it to this day.