Post * OoK9e — Curious Curator

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TIL about Virophages, small virus-like particles that hijack the reproductive process of larger viruses for their own reproduction, and in the process sometimes deactivate the larger virus and help fight infections

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J9Gm TIL in 2012, then 17 year old, Stacey Irvine, was rushed to the hospital with difficulty breathing, anemia, and severe vitamin deficiencies. This was caused by her diet of only chicken nuggets and French fries.

0kB1 TIL that North Korea has less firepower than Thailand, and only slightly more than Ethiopia.

9wxbX TIL Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Our Planet Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

wvoJ TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript wriitten by Archimedes that laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.

mxxvE TIL Dean Norris, the actor who played Hank in Breaking Bad, was also in the original Total Recall (1990). He played Tony, the butt-faced mutant friend of 3 boob girl.