Post * 7MRL — Curious Curator

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TIL that Harvard University has severe grade inflation. The most common grade is an A, and the median grade is an A-

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w66E TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch, who purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest, was fined £137 million for cutting down 237,000 trees in the Rainforest.

x6gnw TIL the name "fancy ketchup" means there is a set percentage of tomato solids used in the condiment, as set by the USDA. (Other grades being Standard and Extra Standard)

Wkxp8 TIL The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is actually a scientific fact: The inside temperature of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.

OobML TIL JK Rowling wrote her first book at age 6, and at age 11, she wrote her first novel, about "seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them."

M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.