Post * 9wgD6 — Curious Curator

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TIL singer Shaggy's signature deep voice is not his real voice. He used it in one song that became a hit and then had to keep using it.

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Mmjm TIL: Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th moon, has a warm ocean at its southern pole with ongoing hydrothermal activity—the first ever discovered outside of Earth. This is the most life-friendly habitat ever discovered outside of Earth.

0Md5 TIL that the terms “left wing” and “right wing” date back to the French Revolution in 1789

5V7YQ TIL that van Gogh didn't die unrecognized. His works were featured in two major exhibitions and praised by many successful artists in his last few months before his suicide. So basically he killed himself right after becoming relatively famous and successful.

LknxP TIL the disease malaria gets its name from the Mediaeval Italian words “mala aria,” meaning “bad air”

OokPe TIL the Nazi party had used the methods of the Turkish state as a standard to draw inspiration from. A Nazi publication of 1925 exalts the new Turkish state for its "cleansing" policy against the Greeks. Between 450,000–750,000 Greeks were killed during the 1923 genocide