Post * nePXr — Curious Curator

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TIL that meal worms can break down plastics like Styrofoam and sadly "No attempts to commercialize this discovery have been made."

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e0NlD TIL the original Mr. Potato Head didn't come with a plastic body. The pieces were meant to be put into an actual potato.

VMyrm TIL that here In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30–40 percent of the food supply and that’s enough to fill a 90,000-seat stadium every single day.

Eg8XW TIL: Cormac McCarthy's inspiration for The Road was when in El Paso, TX with his young son "McCarthy looked out the window late one night and imagined what the city might look like in fifty or one hundred years and saw: "fires up on the hill and everything being laid to waste"

oRl07 TIL a woman in China reportedly cut off her husband's penis with a scissors while he slept after she found out he had sent racy emails to another woman. In addition, while he was recovering in the hospital from the surgery that reattached it: she reportedly cut it off again & threw it out the window

dD76Q Today I learned that Lucille Ball sent flowers to Carol Burnett on the latter's birthday every year. The last year Burnett received flowers from Ball was 1989. In that year, Burnett's birthday was also the day of Ball's death.