Post * e0XeD — Curious Curator

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TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.

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E10rx TIL about Radium Girls who mixed radium paint for watches and used camel hair brushes to apply the glowing paint onto the dials. The brushes would lose shape after a few strokes so the U.S. Radium supervisors encouraged their workers to point the brushes with their lips (lip, dip, paint). 1917-1926

D1ygP TIL farts don’t dissipate easily in space and a particularly smelly astronaut, while in the space shuttle’s middeck, would position his butt next to an air hose that led to the ISS and fire away. He called it “sending emails” to the ISS

6EaPX TIL 97% of all cashew nuts sold are produced unethically due to their naturally toxic fruit

DZLg TIL the sequel to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory includes a trip to a space hotel, the group being mistaken for aliens by the US Government in the hotel, 24 deaths, shape shifting aliens who travel at the speed of light and Willy Wonka saving the day.

ADoRw TIL in the U.S. (unlike other countries), the placebo effect is so strong that new painkillers have trouble beating it in clinical trials.