Post * AAng — Curious Curator

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TIL that there exist a tree with multi-hued bark, that gives it “rainbow colors”.

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rR9d1 TIL the word 'drone', in reference to remote controlled aircraft, was coined in 1935 when the pilotless DH.82 Queen Bee was developed and flown over RF for anti-aircraft gun training.

JY4w1 TIL forensic scientists while determining the time of death, note that drugs found in dead bodies will alter the development rates of insects feeding on a corpse. Cocaine will speed up fly/maggot rates and Morphine or Heroine will slow it down.

XEmVr TIL Prior to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, UK officials considered building a new city in Northern Ireland, and resettling the entire population of Hong Kong on the Magilligan Peninsula near Coleraine

OogL1 TIL the term "paint the town red" entered useage after an English town was literally painted red by a drunk gang.

WkWoA TIL that sunflowers are capable of cleaning heavy toxins such as arsenic and even uranium from soil.