Post * YpK1G — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Alien Breed if you type the cheat code "Stevie Wonder" , the screen goes completely black.

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Lk8eV TIL of Valentin Dikul. At 16, doctor's told him his legs won't work after sustaining a back injury. He taught himself rehabilitation, became a circus performer, and is now the head of rehab of MSK diseases in Russia. He is known for juggling his famous 80kg kettlebell

DZmD TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine

Ooxp4 TIL stunt performer Bobby Leach was the second person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel. He was rescued three times from attempts to swim the Niagra Whirlpool Rapids. He died of a broken leg after slipping on an orange peel.

JYdyj TIL a study reviewing 87 past research papers which suggested that drinking alcohol moderately has health benefits found that literally all of them were biased and/or poorly designed and/or pointing to positive effects that were unlikely in reality.

nej79 TIL of the Orgone Accumulator, a device sold in the 1950s to allow a person sitting inside to attract orgone, a massless 'healing energy'. The FDA noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."