Post * epWL4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words

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GAZb7 TIL that American mathematician Frank Nelson Cole spent "three years of Sundays" factoring 147,573,952,589,676,412,927.

W7pPN TIL That Celiac Disease, Which Requires People to Be Gluten Free, Has Nothing to do With Allergies, But Is Instead an Autoimmune Disease That Can Cause Serious Permanent Damage

wLPy1 TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices/hallucinations. In India and Africa people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and positive voices

R5pj7 TIL about Robert Overacker, a stuntman who in 1995 attempted to ride a Jetski off of Niagara Falls and parachute to safety. The parachute failed and he fell to his death.

epwD TIL the famous “We can do it!” WWII propaganda poster only achieved popularity during the 1980’s. During the war, it was strictly internal to Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for recruitment but to exhort already-hired women to work harder.