Post * Oo8Yg — Curious Curator

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TIL the actor Matthew Perry played the videogame Fallout 3 so often, he got carpal tunnel syndrome and had to see a doctor.

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VMk8k TIL that deer in the Czech Republic don’t cross into Germany, following the example of parents who learned to avoid the electrified fence there during the Cold War.

5VOVQ TIL that if you are a woman on an oral contraceptive you are highly advised against smoking or consuming any nicotine as it has adverse and high risks for stroke, heart attacks, etc.

0oQp TIL the more likely a man can grow a beard, the greater the risk he will go bald.

m15gO TIL Faulty eyewitness identifications have contributed to about 70% of the more than 360 wrongful convictions reversed by DNA across the U.S.

oRr8R TIL: Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, pioneered the field of public relations. Applying his uncle's ideas, Bernays convinced the public that bacon and eggs was the all-American breakfast and, using subliminal images of vaginas and venereal disease, that only disposable cups were sanitary.