Post * PYakn — Curious Curator

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TIL that University of Washington engineers have designed the first battery-free cellphone that can send and receive calls using only a few microwatts of power.

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e0v05 TIL that schistosomiasis, a parasite infection that causes bloody urine, was so common in Egypt that French doctors traveling with Napoleon during his 1798 campaign described Egypt as the only country where men menstruate.

MRNA TIL There is greater inequality in Manhattan today than existed in South Africa before Apartheid ended

vlpD TIL that in 1967 a history teacher performed an experiment with his class to find out why people allowed the Nazis to commit terrible acts. He brainwashed them using Nazi ideals and at the end of the week had several hundred teenage followers under his complete control before he revealed the truth

ANY5x TIL Louis Armstrong loved food so much that he sometimes signed his letters "Soul Foodly Yours." and more often: "Red Beans & Ricely Yours,"

D1yOV TIL John Carpenter filmed twelve minutes of additional material during the production of Halloween II for scenes to be added into the TV broadcast of Halloween. The extra scenes were filmed so Halloween would fit into a two hour time slot on NBC.