Post * VBpVp — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1998 there was a new brand of cigarettes called Bravo that contained no nicotine or tobacco and was made with lettuce.

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kO8Xg TIL that besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was a Soviet nuclear disaster that happened on 1957. The Kyshtym Disaster. Death toll is estimated to be at 50 to more than 8,000. The CIA knew about it but covered it up to prevent panic affecting their own nuclear plants.

0BJR TIL that when 16 year old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in 1973, his billionaire grandfather refused to pay $17 million ransom. After the kidnappers mailed Getty’s ear to a newspaper, his grandfather only agreed to pay $2.2 million because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible.

peAG TIL On this day in 1987 R. Budd Dwyer would commit suicide on national tv thus inspiring Filter’s song Hey Man, Nice Shot

E19BW TIL of the Cavalese cable car disaster, where a showboating US Marine Corps pilot sliced a cable car wire in Italy, killing 20. Despite proof of breaking regulations, the pilot and the navigator were acquitted, but later found guilty of destroying evidence.

eLxb TIL Scientists disagree about whether plants can think, feel, and communicate. They mostly agree about the facts, so the disagreement is about what to call it: “communicate” versus “signal”. Some say plants are intelligent, and they have sufficient memory to “train” them to change their “behavior”.