Post * QPee — Curious Curator

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TIL that kudzu, that vine that grows EVERYWHERE in the southeastern US, is edible.

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LQOLr TIL there's a different kind of ice called ice III (Ordinary water ice is known as ice I). There's also 18 different kind of Ice in total, each forming under different pressure an temperature conditions.

R55M7 TIL after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a team of dredges had to work day and night to clear debris from the Columbia River. When they were finished, they’d collected enough material to fill a football field nearly seven miles high.

DaXp TIL a previously owned black slave was asked to calculate the number of seconds in 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours in order to prove equality in intelligence between blacks and whites. Not only did he accomplish the feat in 1.5 minutes, but he included the leap years in his calculations.

epkn4 TIL in 1858, as Congress was debating slavery in Kansas at 2:00AM, a large fight of 30+ Members erupted on the House floor. After the sitting house speaker banged his gavel and threatened to arrest noncompliant Members, the "melee dissolved into a chorus of laughs and jeers."

J1Nvj TIL that the Pokemon Anime debuting on the Kids WB network started the "decline" of WB Original Cartoons where original WB cartoons would be cancelled due to Pokemon garnering more Child Viewers on the network, Initially causing an era of WB Cartoons that started in 1990 to end.