Post * XgxD — Curious Curator

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TIL that Dan Aykroyd is a 4th generation Spiritualist, his great-grandfather was a mystic, and his father wrote a book called “A History of Ghosts.”

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W7M7d TIL that Madison Square Garden once held a six-day long roller skating race in 1885 that ended up killing two of the contestants. The highest-placing racers used ammonia soaked rags to keep themselves from passing out and ended up skating for over 1000 miles each by the end of the competition.

xnbD TIL that Ouija boards work because of the Ideomotor effect, which is when someone moves themselves or an object without consciously knowing it.

9YmRr TIL the Pacific Ocean just by itself is bigger than all the continents put together.

a8pdM TIL of Ticker Tape Synesthesia, or seeing words in writing as they're spoken, sort-of like a news ticker or subtitles. There's no known cause, but it's thought to result from excess inter-connectivity of neurons in the different sensory regions of the brain.

wGVY TIL that besides gold, Fort Knox has also held, among other things, the US Constitution, part of the Hungarian Crown Jewels, and reserves of morphine and opium.