Post * QQEe — Curious Curator

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TIL if you microwave a sliced grape, it can explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.

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68yw TIL that a minor league baseball player was once traded away for 10 bats, and he died six months later from a drug overdose.

oBpXA TIL that the blue M&M replaced the tan M&M in 1995, people had the option to vote on which color they wanted to replace tann with and blue won with 54% of the votes

BkPW TIL the term “Hippie” is derived from the term “Hipster,” which described jazz fans in the 1940’s. Hipsters were known for pot smoking and sarcasm.

Ooo1Y Short answer: At least one in 50 scientists is doing something fishy

6yW7 TIL in 1982 Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a Detroit suburb. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The attack was motivated by U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan, although Chin was Chinese. They served no jail time.