Post * 6XEZ — Curious Curator

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TIL Adolf Hitler wrote admiringly of the Chinese and Japanese. “They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud [of ours].”

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XEl6X TIL that tiramisù, the Italian dessert, was meant to be a natural aphrodisiac as it was invented in a brothel and it literally means "pick me up"

eGR4 TIL that a molten-salt reactor, a piece of technology conceived during the Cold War that forgoes solid nuclear fuel for a liquid one, can generate energy with far greater efficiency than any power technology in existence.

pnyG TIL that while filming Zodiac, Robert Downey Jr would discreetly pee into jars and leave them in corners of the set as protest for not getting enough break time.

LQvjQ TIL there's a legally blind man who had his eye lenses removed and since then he is able to see celestial objects normally invisible to the naked eye. His name is Tim Doucette and he has his own observatory in Nova Scotia.

gME0y TIL during the Punic Wars, the Romans realized they had no clue how to build ships. They decided to rent row boats, run aground a Carthaginian ship, and plagiarize the designs. The entire first fleet of their new Navy was based off this ship, but learning to row proved more challenging.