Post * p8O98 — Curious Curator

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TIL Michael Phelps' lungs can store twice as much oxygen compared to the average person

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x6r9w TIL that the concept of cognitive dissonance explains why some followers double down when their leader fails - admitting they were wrong is too painful. Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term after infiltrating a 1954 UFO cult whose members became more devoted when their prophecy failed

Vyxm TIL Queen Elizabeth has a Big Mouth Billy Bass that she keeps at the Royal Family summer home

VBRom TIL that Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were written by the same person, the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

W7DpX TIL so confident were the Los Alamos scientists about the design of Little Boy (later dropped on Hiroshima) that a full-scale nuclear explosive test was not conducted

Vwp8 TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are once replied to a young boys fan mail with a hand drawn picture of one of his characters. The boy’s mother wrote back saying simply “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.”