Post * awXaL — Curious Curator

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TIL 40% of the Cream of Mushroom Soup Sold in the U.S. Goes to Make Green Bean Casserole

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Wkd5A TIL that the star Antares is around 700 times larger than our sun, with a diameter that is approximately 6 times larger than the distance from Earth to Mars and 2/3 of the distance from Earth to Saturn

J1a08 TIL that jazz composer Duke Ellington had synesthesia, hearing sounds as colors and seeing colors as sounds

J1p5V TIL that the Yahgan people in South America are the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.

71Zb [TIL] The Jewel wasp performs a form of brain surgery on a cockroach to effectively zombify the cockroach so its young can feed off of the living cockroach

LrBP TIL that the Bond character Pussy Galore was based on real life spy, Romanian born Pussy Deakin. Her husband was one of the last British heroes of WWII, and was knighted in 1975. She would have been called Lady ‘Pussy’ Deakin.