Post * 956G — Curious Curator

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TIL that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.

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yxnV TIL the Russians had a flying aircraft carrier that actually worked and deployed aircraft from the “mother-ship” that successfully engaged their targets

oBlDY TIL about "Earthquake Baroque", an architectural style developed after a series of earthquakes on the Philippines - stone buildings like churches were made low and wide, with thick, buttressed walls like fortress ramparts

nbwo TIL That poorly designed doors (doors that aren’t obvious if you push, pull, turn a handle, etc to open) are called “Norman Doors” and are named after Don Norman who writes about how it should be obvious as to how everyday items function

e005 TIL that in 1967, German lab workers working with Ugandan monkeys came down with an illness. They then documented their own illness, and eventually they isolated the virus.

l7R1A TIL David Frith, an English journalist, in 1983 commented that India should withdraw from the Cricket Cup if they didn't improve. India won the WC and he literally ate his own words , with the help of some red wine.