Post * N7j4P — Curious Curator

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TIL Known for her tense thrillers such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, novelist Patricia Highsmith preferred snails to people.

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e09p4 TIL about Cymothoa exigua, a parasitic isopod that can cut off a fish's tongue and replace the tongue with itself.

6EY6w TIL About "Cargo Cults", which are religions that are formed from natives seeing bases being built in their areas during WW2, after the war ended and everything was abandoned, the natives would try and replicate the soldiers during ceremonies, such as by marching, and signaling planes to land

W7obo TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.

VMk1p TIL There’s a town in Amsterdam called Hogeway where most of the residents suffer from dementia or Alzheimer’s. It has cameras monitoring residents every hour of every day, caretakers posing in street clothes, and only one door in and out of town, all designed to keep the community safe.

OVkL TIL the “earworm” phenomenon, a song that you can’t get out of your head, has been discussed since the 19th Century and was written about by Mark Twain.