Post * x6EdD — Curious Curator

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TIL that enoki mushrooms are called "see you tomorrow mushrooms" due to their tendency to come out of the digestive process whole

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4kLW5 TIL that Post first made Pop-Tarts, as the company had invented a process for dehydrating food and enclosing it in foil to keep it fresh, and they were called Country Squares. Because Post had revealed Country Squares before they were ready for market, Kellogg used the idea and created Pop-Tarts.

9rDr TIL that in 1945, Eisenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust, and had multiple pictures taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.

nW6x9 TIL the United States and the Soviet Union were technically separated by a mere 3.7 km, and a woman swam between them in 1987, earning praise from the leaders of both countries

rNwEw TIL that in 1986 William Goldman wrote a sequel to his famous novel (and screenplay) "Marathon Man."

Y1bA TIL In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, the CIA Director ordered all MK-Ultra files destroyed… A cache of some 20,000 documents survived, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977.