Post * gE9X — Curious Curator

› added 10 years ago

120

TIL the “Sailors’ Handshake” is a special handshake that can detect if a potential partner has Syphilis

Read more

Px6g TIL that The actors in Planet of the Apes were so affected by the make-up that when not shooting, the actors would automatically segregate with the species they were portraying.

yKQ8 TIL that a company sells $425 24k gold pills just so people can say they literally poop gold

6EdPW TIL that Nov. 2, 2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time. Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.

nWBoo TIL that Lea Thompson who played Marty McFly's mother in Back to the Future, was only 10 days older than Michael J. Fox.

7r1PM TIL that the popular sleep-aid Ambien has been shown to make paralyzed and brain-damaged people, who have been well past the point of recovery, spontaneously move and talk again because it can reconstruct neurons and make new connections in the brain.