Post * AaNn — Curious Curator

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TIL that the vikings were warrior-poets, and poetry was considered a gift from Odin himself.

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a8QLN TIL 1980s synthpop band Heaven 17 named themselves after a fictional pop band in "A Clockwork Orange". The fictional Heaven 17 are said in the novel to be at #4 in the charts with their song "Inside"; the real life Heaven 17's best-selling single "Temptation" peaked at #4 on the UK charts

OG5E1 TIL: England has a superhero named Bananaman

Vwn4 TIL the automaton in “Hugo” was not CGI, but an actual clockwork mechanism.

0wD9M TIL about Photic Sneezing, which is caused by looking at bright lights, rather than by irritants in the nasal passage. Only around 18-35% of people have them and it’s a genetic condition. It’s also known as ACHOO Syndrome.

R74Wj TIL Paradoxical Undressing is a phenomenon which is frequent in cases of lethal hypothermia. Before dying, the person undresses as if they were burning up, when in fact they are freezing. People who have died frozen are often found naked and are mistakenly identified as victims of a violent crime