Post * gn0L — Curious Curator

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TIL scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest living animal.

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e0a85 TIL Nearly every time Paul Rudd has gone on Conan to promote a movie or show he plays a clip from "Mac and Me".

OoGyY The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?

m1wAy TIL Musician Col. Bruce Hampton died while performing at his 70th birthday tribute concert with Rolling Stones, Allman Bros, Phish and many others all on hand!

wLGV8 TIL that Jackie Wilson used to take handfuls of salt tablets with large amounts of water before shows to simulate profuse sweating because, according to Wilson, "the chicks love it," not knowing that such a habit would cause hypertension. Jackie Wilson died of complications from a heart attack at 49

5VGWD TIL that in 1817, revolutionaries in Pernambuco, Brazil, declared independence from Portugal, formed a republic, and sent a diplomat to the U.S. seeking recognition—with a plan to free Napoleon from exile on the way back