Post * XEA08 — Curious Curator

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TIL Nestlé Only Pays $200 for 130 Million Gallons of Michigan Water.

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na7b TIL that Gerard Butler is a trained lawyer and was President of the Law Society at Glasgow University

XVjE TIL That Muse’ Matt Bellamy recorded his unborn babys hearbeat with his iphone and that is what you can hear at the start of the song “Follow me.”

kObx7 TIL Peru uses an ingenious system of "fog catchers" to make water accessible to residents of capital Lima's low-income neighborhoods. The fog catchers resemble large rectangular sailboat sails, which are composed of nylon nets that trap microdroplets of water.

aweAN TIL of Ernst Jean-Joseph, a Haitian who was the first player to fail a doping test at the World Cup. Haitian officials beat him up and flew him back to Haiti shortly after.

XEDPP TIL that Stalin hated soldiers who surrendered and considered them traitors. This included his own son, Yakov. When informed that the Nazi's had captured Yakov and sought a possible prisoner exchange with the USSR Stalin replied "I have no son called Yakov".