Post * nrlr — Curious Curator

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TIL that if you put grapes into the microwave it creates plasma.

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mxAyY TIL El Salvador's former national currency was the Colon which was in use from 1892 to 2001. It was named after Christopher Columbus known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish.

9bXQ TIL The longest work of fiction ever written is three million words long and six times longer than War and Peace, as of July 2013. It is a Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfic.

XEna6 TIL that some of the lunar craters that have a brighter appearance than the surface of the moon, are those having an inner wall with a relatively high albedo.

vbWB TIL there are more vacant houses than homeless people in America

Y7JE7 TIL that during the famous 1959 Kitchen Debate, Khrushchev claimed that Nixon's grandchildren would live under communism. But Khrushchev would later be disproven as it was his son instead that became a naturalized American citizen.