Post * QNKDd — Curious Curator

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TIL Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult, and developed the theory of gravity based on occult belief in “action at a distance”

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m1L1Y TIL: Tyromancy is divination or fortune telling using cheese, which was used from 200 AD to the Middle Ages. It is achieved by observing a cheese's smell, patterns, texture, shape, and holes. A heart shape means love, for example. The "best" type of cheese to use was blue cheese.

OGYdL TIL there IS a price for happiness, or rather for avoiding unhappiness! Researchers found that a salary of $105K allows US residents to eliminate financial woes as a source of unhappiness. But the US ranks 10th globally. Who has the highest income satiation point, aka price for happiness? Bermuda!

jN8dM TIL of Connie Culp, a 46-year-old Ohio woman who had been shot in the face by her husband. In 2004, after a 22 hour operation, doctors managed to replace 80% of her face with the face of another woman who had just died. This embarked the first ever successful face transplant in the USA.

KERB TIL Roald Dahl was so disappointed with the original Willy Wonka film that he refused any more adaptations during his lifetime

e0kPL TIL that a Toddler’s life was saved by his aunt, after she noticed a white glow in one of his eyes in a photo- it was a cancerous tumour. From a photo album, his mother realised that the glow had been there his entire life. After 4 months of chemotherapy, the cancer went dormant.