Post * XKv6 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Inspired by a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, an Oregon man in 2003 grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco plant roots creating real-life “Tomacco.”

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wLwaP TIL During a scrapped Conan O'Brien skit, Conan was supposed to cut off someone talking about star wars vs star trek, but didn’t, and they spoke for 6 minutes straight in quite an impressive explanation the Conan staff wasn’t expecting.

78LyM TIL that fish eggs can survive after passing through a waterfowl's digestive system. This provides a good explanation of how fish can populate closed bodies of water like lakes

OoXx6 TIL I learned about Amet-khan Sultan, WWII Soviet Air Force pilot, 2x Hero of The Soviet Union, 3x recipient of the Order of Lenin and 4x recipient of the Order of the Red Banner who personally down 30 enemy planes, including 2 by ramming them.

m89M TIL that the A5 Processor for Apple’s iPhone and iPad is actually manufactured by Samsung.

0dwwL TIL that pioneering physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was one of the first women to publish articles in medical journals. Her last publication was titled "Descriptions of the Early Symptoms of the Meningeal Tumor Compressing the Cerebellum. From Which the Writer Died. Written by Herself."