Post * 16R9r — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Nobel Peace Prize comes with almost 1 million USD

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X06Mj TIL that the ancient city of Carthage practiced child sacrifice, as evidenced by the tophets, burial grounds for young children and infants.

7rZZ7 TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 1700s, had an endless appetite due to unknown causes. In one case, he ate 15 meals in a single sitting, and his endless hunger led him, while in a hospital, to eat piles of garbage, as well as trying to drink other patients blood and eat corpses from the morgue.

EgnWW TIL about the existance of the Nirvana Falacy: the rejection of a proposed solution for not being perfect, despite there being no better alternative.

xrXB TIL in 2014, Fox News plagiarized BioShock Infinite’s logo in a segment on immigration titled “Defending the Homeland,” seemingly unaware of the game’s critical exploration of xenophobia.

4XMkN TIL the THX sound from the opening credits of movies has a name