Post * 9wB6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Ferrero owns Nutella and Nutella is actually inside of Ferrero Rocher chocolates!

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5YQdR TIL of the Pay It Forward Principle. This involves doing a good deed for three people and asking each of them do a good deed for three people and so on. After only 21 repetitions of this all 7.4 billion people on the planet would be reached by such a scheme.

X0Q5X TIL that Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934 CE), a Persian scholar, rejected the idea that mental illness was caused by demons or supernatural forces. He recognized conditions like depression and anxiety and argued they had natural psychological and physical causes, centuries ahead of modern psychiatry.

wLn5Y TIL that in 1642, Connecticut settler George Spencer was suspected of bestiality when a local pig birthed a piglet that resembled Spencer. He confessed, and they hanged both George and the pig. Another settler was later convicted of the same crime, named Thomas Hogg.

R7awa TIL for almost 20 years an organization called the Blind Babies Foundation has supported a Beeper Egg Hunt for Blind Children to participate

JY4Nv TIL In '72 Billy Joel got into a legal battle with his label and was forbidden from recording. He moved to LA and played at a bar under an assumed name to earn money. This was the inspiration for the song "Piano Man". All the characters in the song were based on real people Joel had met at the bar.