Post * wLLJP — Curious Curator

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TIL that chewing gum reduces anxiety, reduced stress levels, and increases blood flow to the brain.

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8ePob TIL about the thrifty scot stereotype, a dying trope where Scottish people are often characterized as exceedingly stingy

9Yj8p TIL Mr. Potato Head was the first toy ever advertised on television and the first to be marketed directly to children, rather than their parents.

ANpWo TIL That Fata Morgana, an optical phenomenon that produces inverted and erect images, occurs because rays of light bend when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.

9Zdm TIL that Woody Allen has been working on the same typewriter since he was sixteen and all of his films were written on it.

eJan TIL Workers who cut up pineapples eventually lose their fingerprints due to the action of the proteolytic enzyme, bromelain, that dissolves them.