Post * D1ElV — Curious Curator

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TIL Lab Mice are unintentionally bread with long telomeres which could invalidate most studies involving mice.

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8ewa TIL that the first actor to say “Goddamn” on Broadway had to turn his back on the audience, as saying it whilst facing them would have been “too shocking”

a896L TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.

VBpa0 TIL although the Sovereign Military Order of Malta has no territory, it is often considered a sovereign entity of international law, issuing passports, money and postal stamps

VBm4Q TIL Ketchup originated in China as a fermented fish sauce called "ke-chiap". The version we know today with tomatoes only came about in the 18th century.

Qgdk TIL In 1935, Sigmund Freud replied to a mother concerned about her son’s homosexuality by saying “ it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness” and “ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too.”