Post * 5xKp — Curious Curator

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TIL that the word “scientist” did not exist until 1833; before that time they were called “natural philosophers.”

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NXwgN TIL of Lost City a robust ancient Ancestral Puebloan city in Nevada that was rediscovered in late 1800s that was knowingly flooded and lost due to the Hoover Dam construction and creation of the Lake Mead reservoir

nWJKo TIL that in 2023, scientists discovered the first known species in which chimerism determines sex - the yellow crazy ant. The ant is invasive in many countries and is capable of a completely new type of sexual reproduction having previously never been seen before.

0g9y TIL Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese’s editor for the last 44 years, doesn’t read the script before she edits one of Martin Scorsese’s movies. This is done so she will have “a cold and objective point of view.” She has edited every one of Scorsese’s movies since “Raging Bull.” (item #23)

kJpP5 TIL Operation Fantasia. Because a fox-shaped spirit is an omen of doom in Japanese folklore, the U.S. developed a psychological warfare campaign during WWII that included a plan to release foxes sprayed with glow-in-the-dark paint in Japan. It was never executed.

dDWbZ til that asylums and institutions existed into the 90s where people inside were given hepatis on purpose by staff, where they were left and often abandoned by their parents