Post * jN8dM — Curious Curator

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TIL of Connie Culp, a 46-year-old Ohio woman who had been shot in the face by her husband. In 2004, after a 22 hour operation, doctors managed to replace 80% of her face with the face of another woman who had just died. This embarked the first ever successful face transplant in the USA.

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nyyW TIL that when curry was introduced into Japan it was considered a British dish, not an Indian one, because of its popularity among British sailors.

OGMd6 TIL that Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female supercentenarian and the second validated human to reach the age of 110. She was also the first proven individual whose life spanned three centuries, having been born in 1792 and died in 1903.

b97x4 TIL that many popular rural-oriented television shows, including Lassie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Hee Haw, were all canceled in 1971 in what is known as the "Rural Purge"

rRMee TIL about Ratón Pérez. The Spanish mouse equivalent of the Tooth Fairy

m1vQo TIL that one side effect of oral birth control is that it shrinks the clitoris (which impacts sensitivity as well)