Post * j86M — Curious Curator

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TIL 90% of college students from China in the US cheat to get admitted

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xGEo TIL I learned of the turnspits, dogs bred solely to run in wheels that rotated meat for cooking

w4xo TIL that Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after “lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies”.

8eRnP TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them

veex TIL that the primacy effect allows us to remember the first items in a list and the recency effect allows us to remember the last items in a list meaning the items in the middle of a list are often forgotten.

XgYR TIL that the Earth’s oceans absorb 25% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released into the atmosphere every year. However, because of the increasing amounts of CO2 into the world’s atmosphere, the world’s oceans are slowly turning acidic.