Post * D8re — Curious Curator

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TIL of the smoke filled room experiment, which shows that even if there’s smoke filling a room people will stay for as long as 20 minutes if no one else is reacting to it. Otherwise they’d leave quickly.

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4VBN TIL, Ancient Greeks and Romans used asbestos to make fire retardant materials so they could be cleaned by throwing them into the fire. Pliny the Elder noted that people who had contact with asbestos-containing materials acquired “sickness of the lungs.”

DRYv TIL That Cal Ripken’s brother Billy wrote F*ck Face on the bottom of his bat for his rookie card.

WeyN TIL there is a ruined city on 100 artificial islands linked with canals in the Pacific Ocean dating back to the 1st Century. Scientists do not know how they were constructed. Local legend says they were built by two sorcerers with the aid of a flying dragon.

loglN TIL There's a chain of cafés in The Netherlands called Brownies & Downies, where you are being served by people with Down syndrome.

N7PlN TIL that actor Jason Mantzoukas (Dennis Feinstein in Parks & Rec) has a life threatening allergy to eggs. Even a trace amount of egg will cause him to have a severe reaction. Once, while on set, he had to be taken to the hospital because of undisclosed egg whites in a parfait he ate.