Post * BgaW — Curious Curator

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TIL that researchers once did an fMRI study showing that a dead salmon demonstrated brain activity when shown a series of photographs. It was done to point out methodological flaws in fMRI research.

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pYxab TIL that before Dieselgate Volkswagon gassed Java Monkeys (and humans) with car exhaust to see if their diesel engines actually ran more cleanly than other cars

GAABN TIL a lot of communities in Alaska have no poilce

PYKYE TIL that "Smarties" in Canada and USA mean two different things. American Smarties are called "rockets" in Canada, and Canadian Smarties doesn't exist in USA.

89WL TIL Russian Czar Alexander I, was so handsome, that Napoleon once remarked, “If he were a woman, I’d make him my mistress.”

Gvo1 TIL a study done on deaths during pregnancy between 1993-1998 found that homicide was the leading cause of death for pregnant women.