Post * KYlka — Curious Curator

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TIL: I learned about the NSO group who recently made headlines again, phone privacy and security is a scary rabbit hole.

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kO08d TIL that early psychologists, having few examples to demonstrate mental illness in humans, would sometimes invoke in court proceedings Shakespeare characters such as King Lear and Hamlet as types of human madness

EgMBd TIL the Fermi Paradox arose as part of a casual conversation in the 1950s when Enrico Fermi asked "But where is everybody?" referring to extraterrestrial life

E1NjP TIL the animal with the smallest known brain-to-body mass ratio, generally considered to be an accurate approximation of intelligence, is called the "Bony-eared Assfish"

kOo0d TIL In 2005 an Oxford University student died when hurled 30 metres through the air by trebuchet. He was a member of the Oxford Stunt Factory, previously known as the Dangerous Sports Club. The most famous member was Graham Chapman of Monty Python, who also used a catapult in the Holy Grail.

oGGr TIL that Mike Lindell, the inventor of “My Pillow” had a crack addiction so bad that his dealers gave him an intervention.