Post * 6EK7J — Curious Curator

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TIL about Stubbs, the mayor cat of Alaska, who drank catnip water out of a wine glass every afternoon.

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pY6ve TIL that the spinning, animated icon to indicate that something on your screen is loading is called a "Throbber"

9nbm TIL The Horseshoe Crab, which has been around for 450 million years, bleeds blue blood because it has Hemocyanin, which has copper, instead of hemoglobin as a transport protein.

XyYQ TIL a study involving 165 patients with Alzheimer’s found that those treated with the highest dose of an antibody drug, aducanumab, experienced an almost complete clearance of amyloid plaques (that supposedly lead to the irreversible memory loss and cognitive decline).

9YrEM TIL that a doctor in the UK was targeted by vigilantes because they were confusing her professional title (paediatrician) with the word "pedophile"

koPd TIL the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Program is known as CAN-FAP