Post * KOem4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Vladimir Lenin's personal car at the time of his death was a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost that he had converted into a half-track.

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e0NPg TIL about “whataboutisms” - a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.

ADMyB TIL that a team in Tanzania is training giant rats to spot Tuberculosis in human spit. The rats can test 100 samples in 10 to 20 minutes: a human with a microscope takes 4 days to test the same number. The same species is also used to detect landmines.

GYXxQ TIL There is a Catholic church in Antarctica made entirely out of permanent ice built by Argentina in 1979.

awVK0 TIL that a frog was the mainstream pregnancy test in the 1950s. If a woman’s urine injected into the frog caused it to lay eggs, then the woman was pregnant.

8eK1P TIL that Aphantasia is a condition where your brain doesn’t form or use mental images as part of your thinking or imagination.