Post * edRD — Curious Curator

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TIL that Dr. Seuss published a NSFW book in 1939. He wanted to draw “the sexiest-looking women” he could but its failure caused him to abandon the adult audience and focus on children’s books instead.

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ANPjg TIL an Australian company grows meat cultures of existing and extinct animals. In addition to investigating the potential of more than 50 species, including alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo, peacocks and different types of fish, the company has created a "mammoth meatball."

VMKnB TIL about Henry Rathbone, the military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was wracked with guilt over his perceived failure to stop the assassination and slowly went insane. He later murdered his wife in a fit of madness and spent the rest of his days in an asylum

5Vomr TIL there is research by the Japan Psychotronics Institute on the possibility of creating matter from consciousness.

X0XP6 TIL Self-Defense from a Tutorial Created in 1933

P5rJ TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing his prescribed hearing aids. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.