Post * JmE1 — Curious Curator

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TIL - ‘Petrichor’ is the word for 'the smell of rain.’ Petrichor is caused by the oil exuded by plants during dry times to slow seed growth being washed into the air by the rain.

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gMYZ7 TIL For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

d8ZZ9 TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived

1aALD TIL Skinny Puppy, a Canadian band sent a bill to the US military requesting $666,000 in royalties for playing their music as torture for Guantanamo Bay's prisoners.

4eV5 TIL that when Columbia caught their secret police agencies abusing their power and breaking the law they disbanded them.

x6Pbo TIL about an American singer named, Orion. His voice was similar to Elvis Presley's, a fact which he and his record company played upon, making some believe that some of his recordings were by Presley, or even that Presley had not died in 1977.