Post * yd7v — Curious Curator

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TIL a species of Indonesian parrot called Goffin’s cockatoo can solve complex mechanical puzzles

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R7Bo7 TIL Hackers can remotely install malware on pacemakers to deliver life-threatening shocks. This mainly applies to pacemakers which do not rely on encryption to safeguard updates.

6yW7 TIL in 1982 Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a Detroit suburb. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The attack was motivated by U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan, although Chin was Chinese. They served no jail time.

GYNE5 TIL In 1908 William "Bigfoot" Anakin, a local champion, was taken along by a publican to court to help demonstrate that darts was not gambling, it was a game of skill. He threw three darts in the center, no other court official could do the same. The judge ruled that darts was a game of skill.

rNpVo TIL of Ada Blackjack, the only survivor of the 1921 Wrangel Island Expedition when in Canada tried to claim the island for itself.

Yplvd TIL the Coronation Chair used by English & British monarchs, since 1308, for their coronation ceremonies has graffiti on due to Westminster schoolboys and visitors carving their names on it during the 18th & 19th centuries. One tourist carving reads "P. Abbott slept in this chair 5-6 July 1800".