Post * vYOr — Curious Curator

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TIL that surgeons who regularly play video games make 37% fewer errors and perform tasks 27% faster than their peers

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rNnLe TIL that Norway has a custom of hanging portraits of the king and other members of the royal family in the bathroom

ZpvaB TIL that Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn and Charlie Sheen went to the same high school.

5Y4l8 TIL 'A Different World' was a spin-off of 'The Cosby Show'. The third season finale of 'The Cosby Show', titled "Hillman", was basically a pilot episode for 'A Different World'.

jN4JX TIL that the opening theme music of '2001: A Space Odyssey', the 1968 Kubrick film, is 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' (1896) by German composer Richard Strauss. I knew there was a lot of classical music in the film, but thought (for 50 years!) the main theme music was modern. Duh.

GY61G TIL that people live inside the Grand Canyon. Supai Village, the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, boasts a population of a couple of hundred residents, is considered the most remote community in the continental US, and is the only place where mail is delivered and carried out by mule.