Post * yQY1p — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a man who needs to drink 20 liters of water a day or else he will die from dehydration.

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yV0Aa TIL in October 1974, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was invaded by 5−7 million blackbirds. They blanketed the town in droppings, creating health hazards and disrupting military operations at nearby Fort Campbell. The birds left in spring but caused $2.6M in damages (nearly $15M today).

gr9mL TIL about Antônio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian composer, songwriter, and singer sometimes known as the "father of bossa nova". His 1965 album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year with the single "Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", which became one of the most recorded songs of all time.

E14a7 TIL Joesph Bramah stared a lock company that was famed for their resistance to lock picking. The company had a “Challenge Lock” where they would pay whoever could pick the lock 200 guineas. The challenge stood for 67 years until Alfred Hobbs finally picked it in 51 hours, spread over 16 days.

Xxy8 TIL The skeleton found by Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill cemetery, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.

Oore4 TIL in 1991 it was discovered that the heart has its "little brain" or "intrinsic cardiac nervous system." This "heart brain" is composed of approximately 40,000 neurons that are alike neurons in the brain, meaning that the heart has its own nervous system.