Post * Xogk — Curious Curator

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TIL that the cell nucleus is probably an ancient virus that invaded a primitive cell and remained there symbiotically.

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m7wp TIL that Alexis Neier, the Bling Ring member who went to jail for robbing Lindsay Lohan, was incarcerated in a cell next to Lindsay Lohan’s

gYpy TIL Sic is an adverb used to indicate that quoted matter is transcribed exactly, including any errors. Use of sic greatly increased in the mid-twentieth century, with a major factor being the use of sic as a form of ridicule.

K4lQ TIL one of the most viewed Korean programs of all time is called “Finding Dispersed Families”, where loved ones that were separated after the Korean War found each other through television

X04GQ TIL scar ectopic pregnancies can happen in Caesarean section scars and are increasing in incidence

v1nPL TIL that origami as we know it today was due to Akira Yoshizawa who, in his own estimation created more than 50,000 models of which only a few hundred were presented as diagrams in his 18 books; he lived in poverty from 1937 until 1954, when he published his first monograph and got his first exhibit