Post * 4klyw — Curious Curator

› added 1 week ago

2

TIL that Charvaka, a 6th century BCE Indian materialist school, was one of history’s earliest explicitly atheist philosophies, rejecting gods, the soul, and the afterlife in favor of direct perception and skepticism

Read more

JYZDV TIL that in the late 1940s a team of American scientists infected 1,308 unwitting people in Guatemala with gonorrhea and syphilis. At least 83 died.

Zk4v TIL spam email is actually finally in decline

p8RMQ TIL that an astronauts space suit costs roughly $12,000,000 USD.

69ErJ TIL that future general George Patton represented the US in the first modern pentathlon event at the Stockholm Olympics

1BED TIL that nations like the former USSR, Sweden, and a majority of other European nations have stockpiled reserves of steam locomotives in case something happens that renders their diesel or electric fleets inoperable, such as a Nuclear EMP event.