Post * abXN — Curious Curator

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TIL that from its discovery in 1947 until 2007, there were only 14 confirmed human cases of Zika infection worldwide. In the past two years there have been an estimated 1.5 million infections in Brazil alone.

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VZY4 TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

rRRr4 TIL that the actress who plays Charlie's mom on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was also Miss Yvonne on Pee-Wee's Playhouse

rNyAy TIL about "Flynn Effect", which shows that the average IQ rises steadily with each generation. IQ tests are made harder and harder to keep the average at 100. Today's children taking tests from previous decades score well above 100 on average.

gGb TIL In 1897, three men tried to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon. The balloon crashed two days after lift-off and the men spent the next 3 months trying to walk back to civilization…only to be eaten by polar bears.

4XgX6 TIL that as a white belt, Paul Walker told his BJJ coach that he would get his black belt "even if he needed to get it in his coffin", shortly after Walker's death, that same coach awarded Walker his black belt and told his father he could put it in his coffin.