Post * b6PwQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that when scientists transferred the gut microbiome of a schizophrenic human into mice, the mice started exhibiting schizophrenic-like behaviours.

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ZdER Today I learned that golf courses have 18 holes, because The Old Course at St. Andrews changed to that in 1764, and others followed suit.

VB0L0 TIL of the sinking of the MV Doña Paz and MT Vector, the deadliest disaster at sea during peacetime. 26 people lived and 4,385 people dived. Many survivors were covered in burns after diving into flaming water.

R5VW9 TIL tourists often cry when they sit on the coffee shop couch from Friends during guided tours of Warner Bros. Studios.

E186p TIL that if you took out all of the empty space from between and within the atoms making up each human being, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

vPer7 TIL in 1984 Leonard Bernstein once conducted the Vienna Philharmonic without the need of a baton or even his hands and instead only used his brow & facial expressions to communicate to the orchestra all the information they needed.