Post * p8Vpe — Curious Curator

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TIL that at the center of a pearl is a parasite. Making pearls is an immune response.

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v5gR TIL “Smoke on the Water” is a true story – it’s about a Zappa and Mothers of Invention concert where the whole place caught fire and burned down. Deep Purple were there to witness the whole thing.

p8J5G TIL according to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip. “I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle” said Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map.

6EB4m TIL that tomato sauce is not Italian at all but Mexican. The first tomato sauces were already being sold in the markets of Tenochtitlan when Spaniards arrived, and had many of the same ingredients (tomatoes, bell peppers, chilies) that would later define Italian tomato pasta sauces 200 years later.

EVJ7 TIL a young child was separated from his mother, and was consequently adopted by an australian family. He tracked her down as an adult by matching hazy memories with landmarks on Google Earth

W1N8 TIL that Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta, has entirely outsourced its government to a private company (CH2M) because being a wealthier area they didn’t want their tax dollars supporting less affluent neighborhoods