Post * pYvpZ — Curious Curator

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TIL There was a rumor that Richard Gere stuck a gerbil in his rectum.

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e0LJk TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates.

R7M54 TIL that in 2016 pregnant British mum Jessica Stubbins paused in the hospital vestibule and delivered her own baby in less than 60 seconds while her husband parked their car.

e0mnk TIL one of this site’s co-founders committed suicide in 2013 after facing up to 50 years in prison for illegally downloading over 4 million academic articles. He was 26 years old.

awRrN TIL Almost 500 years ago, an African man Yasuke arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior and the only black person to achieve this status.

xVaOk TIL about a soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster in 1986. 30 years later it finally reached space and flew in the ISS for 173 days and almost 3000 trips around the earth.