Post * BrxZW — Curious Curator

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TIL 12% of people dream only in Black and White. That number was roughly 25% when Black and White Television was more prevalent.

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W7NJY TIL that 12 players in the NL and AL of major leagues have hit .400 since 1900, and that Ted Williams was (just) the last of them. If you expand to Negro Leagues it's 27 players since 1900, and 42 since 1876.

ZLEY TIL of Kleindeutschland - literally a German town in the middle of New York City. It had the third largest German speaking population in the world until 1000 women and children were killed in a tragic fire. The population never recovered.

KOan4 TIL Charlie Chaplin's widow, Oona O'Neill, became the victim of a extortion plot when his coffin was stolen from his grave by two unemployed mechanics who demanded a ransom. Two months later the coffin was found, and reinterred, and O'Neill was buried next to him upon her death.

Wk50Y TIL that the alternative to fellatio is irrumatio, where the one being stimulated does all the work.

Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.