Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Our memories, not the memories themselves, but the act of remembering.

Our fragile.

As we get older, it gets harder for us to hold on to our past.

It starts simply, sometimes without us even noticing what's going on.

We forget to pick up an item at the store, or it wasn't on the list.

We'll just add it next time, but we never do.

Or we walk into a room and forget why we're there in the first place.

We look around for clues as to what brought us there only to leave empty-handed until

we can remember again.

The brain is a fickle thing.

However, that fickleness can go both ways.

Just ask Daniel McCartney.

In the mid-1880s, Daniel's brain was a bit of a celebrity.

He began his life in Muscatine, Iowa, but moved to Mauro County, Ohio where he spent most

of his life.

And if you were to ask him about that life, he could tell you anything you wanted to know.

The weather conditions of a particular day, or what he had for every meal, or how he

occupied his time from the moment he woke up until he fell asleep.

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