Post * LdOp — Curious Curator

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TIL that 100,000 years ago, at least three major rivers existed in Sahara

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9YD9r TIL back in February a woman played violin during brain surgery so the surgeons could observe the parts of her brain she used to do so and avoid damaging her ability to play

4XEAR TIL things about lettuce, naturally grown wild lettuce contains tropane alkaloids, the active ingredient in cocaine.

m9no TIL that during the Irish Potato Famine, the poor were given construction jobs, so they could earn food rather than receive it as a handout. However, to avoid taking jobs from other workers, these people built useless projects, like roads in the middle of nowhere, and piers in the middle of bogs.

Z87R4 TIL critics complained Indian artist Daler Mehndi of being popular only because he featured beautiful dancing women in his music videos. Mehndi’s response was to create a music video that featured only himself. So that’s how the popular music video “Tunak Tunak Tun” was born.

64d8 TIL that Leonardio DiCaprio used “the drunkest man in the world” video from YouTube as his inspiration for the scene in “Wolf of Wall Street” where he’s crawling to his car after the quaaludes send him into the “cerebral palsy phase”.