Post * GPnQ — Curious Curator

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TIL America hands out $25 billion a year in subsidies to the farm industry. Three fourths goes to just 10 percent of the farmers

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nW8eB TIL that John Argyropoulos, a Greek philospher, died by consuming too much of watermelon.

6KDl TIL 18 million people in the US are consistently hungry, and another 30 million people have occasional problems getting enough food to eat

1a0WP The reason we like straight lines is because of a fundamental property of the Universe – the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

DQPxD TIL certain frogs, such as the Cape rain frog, don't have a tadpole stage and instead hatch from eggs directly into froglets.

4X1oX TIL Rags, who became a World War I dog hero, was originally just a stray pup picked up by a couple of American soldiers in July of 1918. He carried messages from one US infantry division to the next tucked under his collar. He was buried with military honours when he died in 1936.