Post * pOvN — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.

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RD98 TIL When threatened, the hairy frog, or “horror frog,” intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture through the frog’s toe pads to become defensive weapons.

x6NZk TIL there's a flower(Psychotria elata) that disguises itself to look like lips with makeup so that it will be pollinated.

69PPQ TIL of the life of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian jew who was sucessively a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.

eAJ4 TIL when you give a thumbs up, the divot at the base of your thumb and wrist is called a “snuff box” ( this is actually the medical term)

0O1 TIL the first MP3, created in 1987 by Karlheinz Brandenburg, was Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner”. He chose it because the human voice is hardest to compress and believed Vega’s a capella was the perfect test.