Post * rRn94 — Curious Curator

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TIL that combining the piperine in black pepper with curcumin in turmeric enhances curcumin absorption by up to 2000%.

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JY068 TIL Alex McLeish, Ex-Rangers Football Club Manager, was told by his son whom was an ardent player of the football managing simulator ‘Football manager’ to sign a player from Barcelona B. Alex McLeish ignored the advice and claimed, ‘We’ll never hear about him again’. The player was Lionel Messi.

r6M1 TIL that despite Orson Scott Card’s stance against fanfiction, he has written Bible, Isaac Asimov and Shakespeare fanfiction of his own.

VMalk TIL In 2020, conservationists captured the first images of Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria, proving that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing. Cross River gorillas are notoriously difficult to capture on camera and no images had captured multiple infants

Eep TIL a British woman with severe Tourettes Syndrome owns a website where she records her own favorite vocal tics, and asks people to illustrate their favorites. Examples: “Batman breast fed my mum,” and “Roman velociraptor training scheme, artichoke speaking.”

8GYV TIL Verizon received $2.1 billion in tax breaks in PA to wire every house with 45Mbps by 2015. Half of all households were to be wired by 2004. When deadlines weren’t met Verizon kept the money. The same thing happened in New York.