Post * 0MgN — Curious Curator

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TIL: The Word ‘Nothing’ in the title of Shakespeare’s 'Much Ado About Nothing’ was Elizabethan Slang for 'Pussy.’

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loAvN TIL that Imhotep was an Egyptian architect, physician, and advisor to four pharaohs. He lived around 2667-2600 B.C. Imhotep practiced early medicine nearly 2200 years before Hippocrates and designed Djoser’s step pyramid at saqqara. He is the only Egyptian besides Amenhotep to ever be fully deified.

R7WN4 TIL from my Bolivian co-worker that Potosi (the largest city in the new world 1545) had more than 40,000 tons of silver shipped out of the town, making the Spanish Empire one of the richest the world had ever seen. He said it Bolivians claim it was enough silver to build an transatlantic bridge.

YpkVd TIL humans could walk on Titan without a pressurized space suit, only a breathing mask and protection from the cold.

E1rjW TIL the word "Apple" didn't always refer to the specific fruit. As late as the 17th century the word was used for all fruits that weren't berries.

8ZPZ TIL of the XF-84H “Thunderscreech”, an experimental propeller aircraft whose rotors moved at supersonic speeds and created continuous sonic booms visible from hundreds of yards away which were powerful enough to cause severe nausea, headaches, and even knock people to the ground.