Post * 1a4j8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the scientific name for a Brain Freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

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4XAPN TIL that despite playing an anti-Semitic Kazakhstani man, Sasha Baron Cohen is actually speaking Hebrew throughout the entire movie "Borat"

E1X4V TIL that an almost entirely white animal might not be an albino but leucistic, which is a very different condition. Albinoism means a lack of melanin and results in pink eyes, whereas leucism is only a partial loss of pigment and the animal has normal eyes.

pY0lp TIL Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin invented the beverage cart after refusing to play without cocktails.

l7REV TIL: Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, is credited with creating one of the earliest professional armies in the world, ruling from 359-336BC. Philip’s reforms led to Macedonia becoming hegemon of the Greek peninsula, paving the way for Alexander’s conquest of Persia by 326 BC.

oRrQE TIL that Varina Davis, the First Lady of the Confederate States of America, was personally opposed to slavery and doubted the Confederacy could ever succeed. After her husband’s death, she moved to New York City and wrote that “the right side had won the Civil War.”