Post * neJ7B — Curious Curator

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TIL Sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia, depression and anxiety

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9dy6 TIL that Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” borrows most of its lyrics from a poem called “Fun” by Wyn Cooper, netting Cooper a ton of royalties and helping him get his poetry book rereleased

X0EDj TIL that Tibetans underwent the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans. Biologists found 30+ genes with DNA mutations more prevalent in Tibetans than their predecessors, the Han Chinese, half of which help the body regulate oxygen use. They even have a "super-athlete gene" called EPAS1.

yQP5X TIL the world's largest dam is so big that NASA scientists calculated that shift of water mass stored by the dams would slow down earth's rotation and increase the length of the earth's day by 0.06 microseconds.

J1AnQ TIL: Black people with blond hair occur naturally in the islands Melanesia

m0vy TIL there’s a group of 10 men that have been playing tag for the past 23 years, and have gone as far as 300 miles just to tag someone.