Post * KYOE — Curious Curator

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TIL farts smell worse in the shower because our nose works better in high heat and humidity.

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ADYkd TIL lobsters do not die due to aging. They become stronger and more fertile with age due to the presence of enzyme telomerase which tepairs DNA sequence.

4kppw TIL Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip, who terrorized his dog, buried valuables in the yard, and died eating "a pound or two" of lead paint. As a character in one of his novels, Grip is believed to have inspired Poe's famous poem, and is on display in a Philadelphia public library

ZppBo TIL Edith Renfrow Smith celebrated her 108th birthday on July 14, 2022. The first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, Mrs. Smith is a "superager" who has retained her mental faculties even into her hundreds. She lives in Chicago.

pY1lO TIL about the Thomcord Grape a seedless hybrid of the Concord Grape which inspired Grape Flavoring and the Seedless Thompson.

4XpKX TIL Betty Robinson, who won the first Olympic 100m for women in 1928 at just 16, was later involved in a plane crash. A man who discovered her wrongly thought she was dead and drove her to an undertaker. She awoke from her coma 7 months later, before returning to win a relay gold in 1936.