Post * rRdYe — Curious Curator

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TIL With PTSD, your brain doesn’t process the trauma the right way. It doesn’t file the memory of the event as being in the past. The result: You feel stressed and frightened even when you know you’re safe.

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M708K TIL about the "Trivers-Willard hypothesis", a special case of which is that "beautiful people have more daughters"

01R1 TIL the Slovakian women’s hockey team qualified for the 2010 Olympics by beating Bulgaria 82-0, and then lost to team Canada in Vancouver 18-0

jNwjX TIL That in 1938, at the age of the 19, the eventual founder of Red Lobster Bill Darden opened a diner named the Green Frog and defied the laws of the southern state Georgia by refusing to segregate customers based on race.

WXxX TIL that President Richard Nixon considered pardoning himself at the height of the Watergate scandal.

b6RKj TIL: People accused of being witches during the witch trials in colonial New England weren't' burned at stake, they were hanged. One man who was accused of Witchcraft died by pressed to death by heavy stones, another was jailed.