Post * vPM5R — Curious Curator

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TIL that in the early 1900s, hospitals refused to treat premature babies. Dr. Martin Couney set up incubator exhibits at fairs to save them—charging visitors, not parents. He saved 6,500 lives while medicine called it a “sideshow.”

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0wJly TIL that The King's School, a day and boarding school in Canterbury, Kent, England is the oldest continuously operating school in the world. It was founded in 597 AD by Augustine of Canterbury a century after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West as a medieval cathedral school.

mxeQP TIL about The Radium Craze. At the beginning of 20th century, radium was a miracle element, it was used in products from toothpaste to soap, hair and face creams, in food such as butter and milk. Doctors recommended it for the treatment of everything from arthritis to impotence to senility.

GAVaN TIL that Brockton Massachusetts is called The City Of Champions, because both undefeated heavyweight Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler are Brockton natives.

0wyNv TIL that Dr. Leroy Chiao was doing squats on the International Space Station when he accidentally found a way to ripple the solar arrays at a low frequency. Another astronaut later tried to use this technique to help loosen a solar array that got stuck.

Br0bk TIL during the meltdown, Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster