Post * 7xdX — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1978, a man stuck his head in an active particle accelerator - half his face stopped aging since.

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bKXa TIL some animals use copper, instead of iron as a way to transport oxygen through their blood

09NA TIL that test audiences that viewed the film “Good Night and Good Luck” prior to its release complained that the actor who played Joe McCarthy was too over-the-top, not realizing that the film used archival footage of McCarthy himself.

rRnPe TIL Felix Bloch was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." He left Germany in 1933 and went on to become the first professor for theoretical physics at Stanford

b6ooj TIL that Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is deaf in one ear, due to getting hit in the side of head with a lead pipe when he was a child.

XE46r TIL In 2007, the science advocacy group Sense About Science contacted the manufacturers of 15 "detox" products. When pressed, not a single detox peddler contacted could come up with a definition of what they meant by detox