Post * yOLa — Curious Curator

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TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.

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YpAn7 TIL A synthesizer repairman accidentally had a 9-hour acid trip after picking at a crystalline structure on an old sythesizer from the 60s which turned out to be LSD. A LSD researcher explained that LSD can remain potent for decades and be absorbed through the skin.

W7NVo TIL that Elysia marginata sea slugs steal chloroplasts from the algae they eat in order to photosynthesize, and can regrow their entire leaf-shaped bodies after decapitation.

4XKG5 TIL: Every Banana sold in the UK is a clone of the banana grown at the famous Staffordshire theme park 'Alton Towers'

rNR6y TIL helium is a finite resource and that, at our going rate, we will have used up the entire planet’s helium reserves in just over 100 years

e05Dn Today I Learned that a fireworks show in San Diego that was meant to last 18 minutes ended up going out in 25 seconds due to a computer glitch