Post * rmPy — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Chernobyl they planted hemp to remove toxins from the soil in a process that’s called “phytoremediation”

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lo9OA TIL about Chionis of Sparta, an ancient Greek Olympian whose long jump record of over 7 meters at the Olympic games of 656 BC would have won him gold at the 1896 Olympics and placed him in the top eight of the next 10 games, through the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.

Vex4 TIL One of the unsung heroes of 9/11 was a guide dog, Roselle, a yellow Labrador who led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 78 storeys of the North Tower and to the home of a friend.

v1KXr TIL 1/3 of all internet traffic from the U.S. to Asia passes through a single skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles, where 260 ISPs lease space for interconnected networks.

8aNk4 TIL: A woman trying prove that she could scale Mount Everest while on a vegan diet died of altitude sickness

ANNga TIL humans are experts at sweating. In 1 hour, a horse can lose about 100grams of water per sq meter of skin. However, a human can easily shed 500grams per sq meter, which helped our ancestors become unrivalled predators as we can stalk prey until they collapse from heat exhaustion