Post * kOgg5 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2016 William Leonard Pickard - who was sentenced to life without parole in 2003 for creating 90% of the worlds LSD won a decade long lawsuit against the DEA to get his Snitch's records unsealed.

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Lk7RQ TIL that there is an Australian shrub known as the "Suicide Plant" or the Gympie Gympie plant, that's sting can last years and is so agonising that people have been known to commit suicide after touching the plant.

Ooy4X TIL that if you wake up during REM sleep, your chance to remember your dream is 80-90%, while it is less than 50% if you wake up during other sleep stages

V8AB TIL though it has always been a fictional American city, the original artist of Superman modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto

GYelJ TIL two men disappeared in the space of three months, they were both stopped by the same officer and he left them at a Circle K. Neither man has ever been found.

1a4WO TIL that an opera inspired by the Breaking Bad episode, Ozymandias was made by New York composer Sun Jin Hong, and is a combination of Percy Shelly’s sonnet and the episode itself.