Post * 4MeX — Curious Curator

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TIL that despite Olive Garden’s advertising that it has a cooking institute in Tuscany, there is no institute. Olive Garden does send a number of employees to Tuscany each year, but they spend only a few hours at a local restaurant in its off-season.

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NWoJ TIL wearing sunglasses makes you more susceptible to becoming sunburned. Sunlight stimulates the optic nerve and warns the pituitary glad. This results in the release melanocyte stimulating protein in an attempt to prevent burns

8OVL TIL all competitors in the Olympics get a participation medal.

61gW TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment.

1jJV TIL a 4,500 yo Construction Logbook of the Great Pyramid was Found in 2013. It reports on the making and shipping of limestone blocks and the everyday life of workers.

BkVL TIL of Y2k38, or the Year 2038 Problem, when a signed 32-bit integer will no longer be large enough to store the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.