Post * LQ5ZQ — Curious Curator

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TIL A person can carry upto 20% of their mass on their head without using any additional energy.

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6EXKQ TIL Gal Gadot was unaware she was auditioning for Wonder Woman. She thought she would be testing for Catwoman

aw9YZ TIL the actor who played Dr. John Spivey in the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” was a real doctor who during shooting, diagnosed actor William Redfield with leukemia who died only a year later

OorYX TIL that in UK in the 18th century people with epilepsy were automatically thrown in prison, because at the time criminology centered around physical features determining whether the individual was guilty or not

BrDMd TIL that Genrich Altshuller, a Soviet engineer, was given a 25-year prison sentence for sending Joseph Stalin a letter explaining a desire to improve Soviet engineering. He later went on to write science fiction books and found a famous engineering school.

jN0rR TIL sailors at sea with the US Navy during the War of 1812 had rations of 4240 calories per day, about twice the recommended daily allowance for the modern American man.