Post * x7OD — Curious Curator

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TIL that if you take the Myers-Briggs personality test twice, five weeks apart, there’s a 50% chance you’ll fall into a different personality category the second time.

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be9Q TIL a German Officer asked Picasso “Did you do this”, when he saw a photo of the painting ‘Guernica’, a painting about the effects of German Bombardment on the Spanish Town of Guernica, Picasso simply responded “No you did.”

JYjVV TIL TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, a Swanson worker misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving by 26 TONS! Somebody then came up with a plan: Why not slice the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side? Thus, the first TV dinner was born!

GApv4 TIL Medicine in ancient Rome was highly influenced by ancient Greek medicine, but also developed new practices through knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus combined with use of the treatment of diet, regimen, along with surgical procedures.

OGEQ4 TIL the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal. When grass is cut, it releases compounds called green leaf volatiles, which signal injury and can attract predators of plant-eating insects.

Xr5r TIL - School Buses Are Yellow because color yellow gets noticed faster than any other color. Studies have shown that humans notice the color yellow 1.24 times faster than another eye-catching color, red. Yellow is also particularly visible in the early morning and evening light.