Post * lojwa — Curious Curator

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TIL that Hindus make up 35% of the population in Guyana and 22.3% of the population of Suriname in South America .

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5O6R TIL that sloppy Medical handwriting kills more than 7,000 people every year

DDdV TIL scientists in Israel planted 2000 years old seeds from an extinct date palm species and successfully grew a sapling

PY1Kn TIL that after the U.S. Army Chemical Corps exposed over 11,000 guinea pigs to the bacterium Brucella suis via air-dropped M33s, one Chemical Corps general remarked, "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"

4k4x5 TIL the reason some have vivid dreams after abstaining from cannabis is because cannabis can reduce REM sleep.

x6Odo TIL Spike Lee negotiated with a Brazilian drug lord to allow him to film Michael Jackson's 96 music video 'They Don’t Care About Us' in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The drug kingpin replied “With Michael Jackson here, this will be the safest place in the world.”