Post * a8Bry — Curious Curator

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TIL A Snail Wakes Up After 5 Years of Being Glued to a Museum Card. In 1846, authorities at the British Museum glued what they thought was a deceased snail to a piece of cardboard for display. After it seemingly became unglued 5 years later, they discovered it had been alive the whole time.

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W6rL TIL that Richard Mansfield, one of the first actors to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was so good at acting a psychopath that he became a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, was reported to the police and had his career decline afterwards from suspicion.

j61Zj TIL that Kanepi, a small town in Estonia, has a cannabis leaf as its flag’s symbol. The town council let community members vote for the new flag, including the pot leaf symbol as an option. 12,000 of the 15,000 votes went to the pot leaf despite Kanepi being a town of fewer than 5,000.

69elX TIL: In 2015, a team of Italian scientists at the University of Trento made spiders produce stronger webs by spraying them with water infused with nanotubes and graphene. These super spider webs were stronger than Kevlar.

O1rR TIL after being assigned to create the first act of a play for his playwriting class, Matt Damon turned in a 40-some-odd-page document and said, “Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.” This was later developed into the movie, ‘Good Will Hunting’.

P1nAL Today I learned that cancers in areas like the brain and genitals can be treated using nuclear reactions.