Post * X04Z8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that a human scientist mind-controlled a cybernetic rat's movement with a brain-to-brain interface

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9YdlQ TIL that in many places in the world, graves are not owned, they are rented, and if the rent isn't paid after you're dead, your body is evicted into a mass grave.

6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]

9wW5Q TIL manufacturers do not recommend cooking salmon in the dishwasher. An LG spokesperson stated there is a question of whether certain foods (like fish and eggs) will be heated well enough in it to kill pathogens like Salmonella and that the water temperature will not be as consistent as a stove.

GAeyG TIL of the Socorro springsnail. This critically endangered snail only remains in a single New Mexico spring, which is on private property; since the owner has denied access since 1995, the current population and status of the species is unknown.

7rvwP TIL that if you dig through any part of the continental U.S. Not only would you be nowhere near China, but there's actually a very slim chance you'd hit any land at all.