Post * GKe5 — Curious Curator

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TIL AirBnB is causing entire neighborhoods to become ghost towns, as landlords push out tenants to make way for overnight visitors.

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lK45 TIL that Ellen Degeneres turned down the role of Phoebe on “Friends.”

N7OAE Today I learned that Grover Cleveland became the first sitting president to get married. He married a woman 27 years younger than him, Frances Folsom, whom he had literally known since her birth. After Folsom's father died when she was 11, Cleveland became her legal guardian.

6pNQ TIL we hear songs that get stuck in our head while performing tasks that require a “low cognitive load”, such as showering or getting dressed. Our brain uses these songs as a “screen saver” to keep us entertained while our brain is essentially idle.

d8OYK TIL researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.

VvXZ TIL in Kazakhstan there is a town where people suddenly started falling asleep for 5 days or longer.