Post * 78OeM — Curious Curator

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TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics

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kOPp7 TIL most Japanese schools do not employ janitors. The Japanese education system believes that requiring students to clean the school themselves teaches respect, responsibility, and equality

oJR7 TIL that Nixon sabotaged LBJ’s peace negotiations with North Vietnam.

XELek TIL It is a popular myth that a komodo dragon's bite causes death because the mouth of a komodo dragon is so filthy that the bitten animal ultimately dies of a bacterial infection. In fact, a komodo dragon's mouth is just as clean as most animals and it instead relies on venom to hunt prey.

W79AX TIL Vidkun Quisling, head of Norway's Nazi puppet government, and his second wife, Maria, adopted his first wife, Alexandra, as a foster daughter. He also never legally married Maria.

gMNlX TIL René Descartes was serving as a mercenary in 1619 when one night, he shut himself in a room to escape the cold. He had 3 visions which he believed to be a new divine philosophy. He likely had an episode of exploding head syndrome. Upon exiting, he had formulated analytical geometry.