Post * E710 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Sigourney Weaver’s real name is Susan and she chose the name “Sigourney” from a character mentioned in “The Great Gatsby”

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d8ng9 TIL that Pandora's Box is a mistranslation. In the original story of Pandora, the container was actually a large storage jar, meaning we should be saying "Pandora's Jar."

jNrkj TIL the practice of Yoga is thousands of years old, but the physical exercise most associated with it today was introduced to India by the YMCA in the 1920s, and is based on Swedish and Danish gymnastics.

a8BP9 TIL nine members of the Nepalese royal family were murdered in a mass shooting perpetrated by the Crown Prince Dipendra, before he turned the gun on himself and attempted suicide. He was left in a coma, during which he was declared King, before he died three days later.

l7lNN TIL that snails can sleep for three years.

78rBP TIL that when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, two Mosler bank vaults had surface damage, but their contents were completely unharmed.