Post * 8YZa — Curious Curator

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TIL The guy that punched Snooki had to join the army after losing his job

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Bg7xW TIL Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters movies, was rejected from a role in the Ghostbusters cartoons because they thought he didn't sound like Winston Zeddemore

v17VB TIL Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives. She is described as “almost completely forgotten by people”.

GAG1j TIL The term Ιesbian comes from an ancient greek island called Lesbos. Sappho was a poet and a playwright but her works were destroyed in the fire that burned down the Library of Alexandria. She is believed to be the earliest documented gạy or bisexuaΙ woman and was born in 615 BC.

dD4jE TIL about Swedish A-tractors, a loophole that allows restricted cars to be registered as tractors that can be driven at 16, and has created a whole sub-culture of car mods

JYgLj TIL William Walker worked under water below Winchester Cathedral for six hours a day for six years to restore the building's foundation. He worked in total darkness, using his bare hands to feel his way through the cloudy, muddy water.