Post * gM8w7 — Curious Curator

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TIL about the "male idiot theory", where men are more likely to engage in risky behaviour without any apparent payoff.

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OmP1 TIL Homer Simpson makes on average $80,260 a year as a Nuclear Safety Technician

QNN0E TIL that the finish military had a swastika as their logo up to 2020 when pressure made them reconsider the logo

epyok TIL about Marjorie Rice, a self-taught mathematician who, in the 1970s, discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons (figures able to pave a surface without leaving a void between them)

grxLA TIL that people over 65 have poor theory of mind, and it can still be improved if deliberately worked on.

WkZ0o TIL that, in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences found only DNA analysis could rigorously and consistently match evidence to a single person/source with high confidence. Other methods, especially pattern matching (fingerprints, handwriting, bite marks, footprints, hair, fibers, etc.), could not.