Post * BrpYK — Curious Curator

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TIL that the “ah-choo” sound people make when sneezing is a cultural learned behavior. For example, in the Phillipines they instead say “ha-ching”, the Japanese say “hakashun”, and deaf people don’t add any sounds at all.

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V9W0 TIL that Robin Williams dressed up as a Russian proctologist to humour Christopher Reeve right before his surgery with a 50% survival rate. Reeve stated: “For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.”

eblL TIL In New York, a woman saved a little boy’s life giving him CPR after being hit in the chest with a baseball bat. About 7 years later, in 2006 that very same boy saved her from choking to death giving her the heimlich maneuver in the restaurant that he worked.

jd6X TIL Genghis Khan’s chief adviser was a captured scholar named Yelu Chucai. His contribution to the Mongol Empire was to suggest that the Mongols not kill everyone, but tax them instead.

GKyJ TIL Brazil and France seriously considered going to war on whether lobsters swam or crawled

XNak TIL in a rubbish dump in Newport, Wales there is a discarded hard drive containing the private key to 7,500 Bitcoins. At today’s US$3,211 Bitcoin price, the hard drive is worth more than US$24,000,000.