Post * pj8A — Curious Curator

› added 9 years ago

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TIL A California teenager traded up an old phone on Craigslist for different items until he eventually acquired a Porsche

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nZ1B TIL that veterinarians are 4x more likely to commit suicide than the general population

jXZX TIL humans may have accidentally caused climate change once before– 11,000 years ago, by killing off woolly mammoths, which transformed North American grasslands into birch forests, which in turn burned so intensely that the climate in North America changed.

8a59G TIL there was a 1920 novel about Abraham Lincoln's mother titled 'The Matrix.'

yQrNv TIL that body fat has the exact same net calorific value (energy by volume) as gasoline, 9700 calories per liter.

QJ8k9 TIL that although bamboo are commonly refered as "bamboo trees", bamboo aren't trees at all. They are actually one of the largest members of the grass family.