Post * xVXdo — Curious Curator

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TIL the average $1 bill has been contaminated with vaginal bacteria, microbes from mouths, DNA from pets and viruses and drugs

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dDQkQ TIL Dry Water is a thing, confirming that water actually is wet.

mevO TIL that undercover investigators from the Government Accountability Office set up a shell company, and received a license for the radioactive materials needed for a dirty bomb, all without any inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

VGep TIL A man named John Harrison has a job tasting ice cream. He has tasted samples of over 200 million gallons of ice cream and his taste buds are insured for $1 million

kJJOE TIL There is fish that plays dead to in order to trick scavengers in to coming close enough to eat.

4XgGo TIL about the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge", an anticyclone high pressure wall which was blocking the North Pacific storm track from getting rain to California over the last roughly 8 years, causing the state's recent record breaking drought. It has finally dissipated and now we get rain again.