› added 2 years ago

328

TIL Ginza street in Tokyo Japan is closed to cars on certain timings during weekends and public holidays.

Read more japan.travel

via reddit.com

V50k TIL Marie Curie, a Polish radium physicist in the 20th century was exposed to so much radiation during her life that her notebooks must be kept in lead-lined boxes. They will still be dangerously radioactive for another 1,500+ years.
v15Wj TIL that Edward Jenner discovered vacination by injecting puss from a milkmaid's cowpox sore into an eight-year-old boy and then attempting to infect him with smallpox six weeks later. The boy did not develop smallpox, indicating that the earlier exposure to cowpox protected him from infection.
QJpY6 TIL that Europeans in the 17th century once thought they could heal themselves by consuming human corpses. The remains were considered medicinal because they were believed to contain the spirit of the body they were taken from. Bone powder, human fat, and fresh, warm blood were in high demand.
0dolM TIL that "Neurorealism" is a fallacy in science where people ascribe too much faith in psychological phenomenon merely because it is backed up by brain imaging methods.
yVj68 TIL that in Italy, a judge sentenced scientists to prison for not correctly predicting an earthquake and warning the public