Post * 1aDQ4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Polygamy was legal in Bavaria, Germany after the 30-years-war. The war killed so many people - the population dropped from 16 million to 4 million - that in 1650 a law in Bavaria allowed men to marry up to 10 wives.

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PYoDn TIL that the human brain can process and correctly identify images seen for as little as 13 milliseconds.

MeWRW TIL When Rick James attended a dinner party in Hawaii with Salvador Dali, Dali insisted on drawing him, sketched him on a napkin and gave it to him. The priceless memento became an inky blob the next morning when he smoked a joint and went swimming with the napkin still in his swim trunks.

ZPep TIL if all the frozen water stored near the south pole of Mars suddenly melted, it would make a planetwide ocean 11 meters deep.

J1vom TIL Richard Garfield - creator of the trading card game Magic: The Gathering - is the great-great grandson of U.S. President James A. Garfield.

KoAG TIL that the original Iron Chef came to the US, and Bobby Flay challenged Masaharu Morimoto. At the end, Flay stood on his cutting board, raising his arms in premature victory. Morimoto felt that tools are sacred to a real chef and criticized him, saying he was “not a chef.” Flay lost the battle.