Post * m1Gox — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing tens of thousands of sterile fruit flies to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly.

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dLl9 TIL that Shia LaBeouf’s famous motivational speech is part of a compilation where students of a performing arts class wrote speeches for him to read on camera.

gMvg7 TIL that after his PhD thesis defense, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein clapped the two examiners on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it."

NXnnP TIL Jimmy Carter has to go past a giant grinning peanut statue every week to get to church. He reportedly hates the thing.

v1mZK TIL of Masaniello, an ordinary fisherman in Naples, who in 1647, organized a revolt against the government in a single day over a newly imposed fruit tax, and was declared by the people and Duke himself as “captain-general” of Naples... only to be assassinated 9 days later.

neoZ9 TIL The word 'mortgage' literally means 'death pledge'