Post * P0WZ — Curious Curator

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TIL when actor James Cagney received an honorary degree he surprised the university by submitting a paper on soil conservation

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RW9 TIL Sugar cures the hiccups 19 out of 20 cases

x6oJk TIL that doctors at Yale University found that make-believe games are the "forerunners of the important capacity for forms of self-regulation including reduced aggression, delay of gratification, civility, and empathy.”

84Ka TIL: Donghua Li was a gymnast from China who got kicked out of the Chinese Gymnastics team after he wanted to marry a Swiss girl he met whilst recuperating from an injury. He became a naturalised citizen of Switzerland and won the gold medal in Atlanta for the pommel horse event.

Lkmj9 TIL Golden rice is just NORMAL RICE genetically modified to contain VITAMIN A because where rice is part of the staple diet people were DYING with deficiency

PY4OJ TIL Amerigo Vespucci (and by extension, America) may have been named after St. Emericus of Hungary. St. Emericus died at 24 during a boar hunt, and was only canonized 52 years later after a series of miracles occured at his grave. His bones were dug up for the ceremony.