Post * RL8l — Curious Curator

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TIL each of the four major professional sports leagues in the U.S. has a contingency plan if, God forbid, an entire team were to perish in a plane crash.

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QN0BL TIL Jain scriptures dated from the 6th century B.C. propose the existence of "nigodas," tiny creatures living everywhere, in the tissues of plants and animals. It wasn't until 1646 when Athanasius Kircher wrote that milk and vinegar were "abound with an innumerable multitude of worms"

YXDZ TIL A 15-year-old liver transplant patient is the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.

x6yQ5 TIL there have been at least 68 cases of homicidal sleepwalking. A famous case from 1981 had a man unconsciously stab his wife 26 times. The court found him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Because he was sane at the time of the trial, he was not sent to a psychiatric hospital.

lx1A TIL IN 1912, candy manufacturer Clarence Crane invented Life Savers as a “summer candy” that could withstand heat better than chocolate and shaped the candy with a hole to prevent children from choking, due to his own child having choked on a hard candy

DQXKp TIL there is a satirical political party in Germany called “Die Partie” that has pledged to build a wall around Switzerland and to rebuild the Berlin Wall. They received 900,000 votes in the 2019 EU elections