Post * nkwd — Curious Curator

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TIL that there are children in Japan that can do massive calculations in seconds with a purely imaginary abacus, where it looks like they are manipulating nothing but air.

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5Vdmn TIL about Grape the Humboldt penguin from the Tobu Zoo in Japan, who fell in love with a cutout of an anime character.

BrAKD Today I Learned that 3-toed sloths and 2-toed sloths aren't closely related to each other, and each group evolved the tree-hanging lifestyle independently, an example of convergent evolution.

GApkE TIL I learned about Bagel Bakers Local 338, a local trade union that was established in the early 1900s in New York City and whose craftsmen were the primary makers of New York's bagels, prepared by hand, until the advent of machine-made bagels in the 1960s led to its end.

Y770v TIL of Dialysis at Sea Cruises: A cruise specially for kidney failure patients and their family who require regular hemodialysis to survive.

RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.