Post * OQme — Curious Curator

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TIL to be a London black cab driver, one is expected to know over 25,000 roads and 50,000 points of interest and pass a test called “The Knowledge”. To pass the exam, applicants usually need twelve appearances and 34 months of preparation.

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4kkM6 TIL about Ocular Herpes Simplex Keratitis. This is HSV of the eyes. While 1/3 of humans have genital HSV, about 1.4M people have OHSK. Also, Keratitis is the #1 cause of cornea-related blindness.

aYN9 TIL that the same man invented heroin and aspirin.

knN5 TIL the Rolex watch company is run by not-for-profit charitable trusts. So after a certain amount of money goes to Rolex employees & the founding Rolex family, what remains is donated to charities. Some of these charities focus on watchmaking & some on HS education. Rolex founder was an orphan.

l7vbG TIL abount Neil Harbisson, the world's first officially recognized cyborg. He has an antenna implant that allows him to feel and hear colors as audible vibrations.

RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”