Post * neWOd — Curious Curator

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TIL of Magdalena Solis, a Mexican prostitute who was paid to imitate an Incan goddess as part of a scam. She then began to genuinely believe she was a goddess, took over the cult, and started sacrificing her followers.

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JYyWl TIL of Antonio Prohías, a Cuban cartoonist who was accused of working for the CIA by the Castro government. He fled to New York and went on to create Spy vs Spy for Mad Magazine. Later he said, "The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."

rRBj0 TIL The least weasel, at 5" long, is the smallest true carnivore on Earth, but also one of the most fierce. They horde up to 50 carcasses in their burrows. This ensures a stockpile of food. Due to its small size and fierce nature, it plays an important part in mythology and legend.

5G79 TIL actress Marilu Henner who has a highly unusual type of memory, known as HSAM, which allows her to recall extremely specific details of any day she experienced in her life, has been part of a study that may aid Alzheimer’s research.

rR1L4 TIL Sweden had a racial purity programme until 1976. More than 60,000 people were sterilized. People could apply to have "problem families" in neighborhood sterilized.

LkONQ TIL That when Christopher Reeve (the man who played Superman) was about to receive the surgery to reattach his skull to his spine after falling off a horse, Robin Williams cheered him up by dressing as his character from Nine Months and proclaiming that Reeve will be getting a rectal exam.