Post * v10W8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Kobe Bryant won an Oscar.

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8exMb TIL virtual reality can induce mild and transient symptoms of depersonalization and derealization

JYb9k TIL about the Sweaty T-Shirts test. Men wore t-shirts for two days and then women were tested on which smell they liked. Women preferred the smell of men who were genetically similar but had different immune systems. Inheriting different immune systems gives children a survival advantage.

a4AL TIL: to counter terrorism during 2004 bus bombings in Israel, bus drivers used squirt guns to spray pig fat on suspected bombers; this way they refuse to detonate and meet allah unclean.

W049 TIL that the mayor of Dorset, Minnesota is only 4 years old and he was recently “re-elected” for another one-year term in office

N65e TIL that 111-year-old Alexander Imich was a survivor of both the Holocaust and the Soviet gulags. Mr. Imich also became the World’s Oldest Living Man in 2014.