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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neoNG TIL Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes on "Sherlock," is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character.

rkey TIL that hundreds of thousands of feral goats were exterminated using helicopters and rifles on the Galápagos Islands to protect the local Tortoise population.

Me7m0 TIL the original developer of Plants vs. Zombies was fired after objecting to its sequel becoming more pay to win

womPY TIL: Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. Alison Wilson was the third of four wives of former MI6 officer Alexander Wilson. After his death in 1963, Alison discovered another wife of her husband's. Alison died in 2005 without knowing he had had two further wives.

nZoP TIL crows in New Caledonia were found to be bending twigs into hooks to extract food hidden in wooden logs. This confirms that wild birds can make tools.