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if y'all wanna feel old with me, kids born in 2017 are now going to kindergarten. i feel old

cicada shells taste like shrimp and are actually used in plenty international dishes.

when cokeacola was originally invented it was made to be had warm. when pepsi was invented it was made to have cold. cold pepsi and warm coke have the same flavor supposedly. i haven’t tried it yet.

7up used to have some chemical or smth in it that’s found in now day antidepressants.

there’s a 15 y/o who discovered a mayan city using star constellations.

i’ve never seen the shining, but apparently the little boy playing danny had no clue he was in a horror movie. must’ve been a shock when he grew up.

an astronaut who went to the moon discovered he was allergic to moon dust as he went. a lot of us probably have gone out whole life allergic to the moon and never having known it.

we all know neil armstrong’s famous “one step for man, one leap for mankind” thing, but right after that he said “good luck mr [name I don’t recall]”. for years people asked who he wished good luck. neil armstrong answered the question years later. the guy was his neighbor, and his wife told him he would only get adult fun time with her when the kid next door walked on the moon.

there’s two cities that are “paired” together (literally, the welcome signs say it) and they have the best names ever I kid you not. boring, oregon in the US, and dull, scotland.

tampons were originally made to plug bullet wounds in ww1.

if you add two pounds of sugar to concrete it will prevent it from setting properly.

they’re teaching gorillas sign language.

i know all of this from stuff i read on pinterest.

there’s a stone called alexandrite and it’s red under artificial light and green under natural light (or vice versa, i’m not sure). i learned that from a coloring book.

@AlloraLaterano: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

the type of red mushroom with spots found in Super Mario and also as an emoji is actually based off a real mushroom called the "Fly Agaric" or more scientifically "amanita muscaria"! sadly it's poisonous so you can't eat it :<

@ac1dic_n3o: I saw that exact mushroom once in the wild, it was so cartoonish looking lo