Post * yXLw — Curious Curator

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TIL: That a Russian scientist, Alexander Bogdanov, hoped to achieve everlasting life, by transfusing blood with others who were younger than him. Later, he died after transfusing a student with malaria, who made a full recovery after the transfusion.

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a8np0 TIL about the "sleeping child" doctrine in North Africa stating some fetus have been made to "sleep", thereby making pregnancy longer than usual and explaining how divorced or separated women still had children from their husbands

Jggm TIL Ronald Reagan once joked on a un-aired NPR broadcast that the US had declared war on Russia, the broadcast was later leaked and caused a portion of the Soviet Army to go on alert for 30 minutes.

Z80nR TIL: The central spire on the Notre Dame was built almost 600 years later in the 19th century amid a broad restoration effort, partly buoyed by the success of Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" in 1831.

pY9yA TIL The discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced in Comic Sans font, causing outrage on Twitter - but also highlighting that the benefits of Comic Sans, which has been clinically proven to make reading easier and is used in treating dyslexia.

awrVM TIL about Konstantin Volkov, a would be NKVD defector. He offered to expose hundreds of Soviet agents operating in Britain. The man put in charge of his case was Kim Philby, who was secretly working for the Soviets. He promptly informed his handlers about Volkov who was then most likely killed.