Post * oxoA — Curious Curator

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TIL the pH of the vagina is around 4.5, so there’s no such thing as a “basic bitch”

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4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.

n7lb TIL coal power plants produce more nuclear waste than nuclear power plants

Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.

D1jdD TIL two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we're clinically depressed and gaming reverses that damage. Gameplay hyperstimulates areas of the brain associated with motivation, goals, learning and memory; making it the neurological opposite of depression.

WEXo TIL that the two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, in the Rwandan Genocide were designated by European colonists somewhat arbitrarily. A Hutu could become a Tutsi by acquiring ten cows.