Post * eppL — Curious Curator

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TIL nearly all people with Down syndrome exhibit Alzheimer’s Disease by age 40, due to the fact that they have an extra copy of the gene responsible for forming the plaques that lead to the disease.

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e0WNg TIL Cruise lines pay almost no taxes thanks to a maritime law loophole called "flags of convenience". Despite being headquartered in Miami, RCL and NCLH have all of their ships registered in the Bahamas. CCL has all of its ships registered in Panama.

LaeQ TIL America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a joke intended to humiliate women, but instead she won over 60% of the vote.

Y7GGZ TIL that Mozart died in 1791, leaving his ‘Requiem in D minor’ unfinished. His student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed the work using Mozart’s sketches, creating the version most widely performed today.

kJnAB TIL the Frisbee was invented by Walter Morrison in 1948, inspired by the way popcorn lids would fly in the air.

QJ8ZX TIL that bats, butterflies, primates, and plankton are as equally essential to the survival of the human race as bees are.