Post * 5YLgQ — Curious Curator

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TIL the song 1985 isn't by Bowling for Soup. It was originally written and preformed by SR-71.

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14Zd TIL that methamphetamine was nicknamed panzerschokolade (“tank chocolate”) during WWII because of how common it was used among German soldiers

6959m TIL the first computers were humans, most of whom were women. A person performing mathematical calculations, before the widespread use electronic computers, was ascribed the term computer. From 1865 onwards, women composed a considerable proportion of these human computers, playing a pivotal role.

w77M TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.

M7KrW TIL that from 1928 to 2016, no Republican won the presidency without Richard Nixon or a Bush on the ticket

KOAoR TIL, Tennessee Aquarium in the United States is home to an electric eel that uses its electrical discharges to post from its own Twitter account when it emits electricity at a high enough threshold.