Post * wLd9M — Curious Curator

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TIL a Florida professor caught 200 of his students in a cheating scandal and captured his lecture to them in a video he later posted online

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4jP5 TIL In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 to say that heart disease was most likely caused by saturated fat. After their report was published in JAMA, diets concentrating on low fat gained the endorsement of many health authorities.

XVj TIL when Einstein died, his brain was taken out of him by a doctor who later disappeared with it. 23 years later, a reporter tracks the brain down to find the brain in hundreds of pieces.

JY4jk TIL of a shipwreck in the River Thames of London that is full of explosives that if detonated could cause a tsunami

PY9Ne TIL that, because of similar names, Slovenian and Slovakian staff meets once a months to exchange wrong delivered mail.

kJOEg TIL the modern face-up technique of high jump was invented by American Dick Fosbury and debuted at the 1968 Olympics. Reporters mocked him, saying he looked like a "two legged camel". He won the gold. It is now known as the "Fosbury Flop" and is the dominant style in the sport