Post * wLrQP — Curious Curator

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TIL that a social experiment was conducted where wallets were left in 20 cities to see if the people there were honest enough to return them. Only in Denmark and Norway were they all returned.

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QNKg9 TIL there's no town Sweet Home, Alabama, but there is a Sweet Home, Oregon

d80Pd TIL that rocking back and forth or moving in general activates the hippocampus while learning and memorizing things. Some people chew gum instead of the back and forth rock. Recall improves while moving and learning, and recalling things 5 times over a spread of days can burn in the working memory.

YpDvr TIL of Luke “Milky” Moore, an Australian who was able to overdraft over $1.5 million from his bank. He was eventually sent to prison, appealed and argued his own case, was released, and is now studying to become a criminal defense lawyer.

nWlGG TIL With the 1971 first encounter with the Tasaday people in the Philippines, western anthropologists became suspicious. Living with limited technology and stone tools, they appeared so close to the stone-age stereotype that anthropologists began suspecting them of being an elaborate hoax

lmY5 TIL of Robert H Lawrence Jr. a Major in the USAF, he was the first black man to be trained as an astronaut, however, he died in a plane crash during flight training and never made it to space.