Post * GY45 — Curious Curator

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TIL it’s possible to hallucinate with only a ping pong ball, a red light, and a radio.

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Ooyxg TIL Rev. Martin Luther King had really bad handwriting, and after his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was smuggled out of jail on scraps of paper, his deputy Wyatt Tee Walker typed it up because he was the only one who could read it

KOJ49 TIL: Plato's real name was Aristocles, and that 'Plato' was a nickname (roughly 'the broad') derived either from the width of his shoulders, the results of training for wrestling, or from the breadth of his style, or from the size of his forehead.

VMvYD TIL In 1984, OSHA fined a company $640, after a rocket motor fell on an employee and crushed him against the securing beams.

mbJx TIL of the sheela na gig, something like a stone gargoyle carving on churches and castles in Ireland and England, but is instead a depiction of a woman with exaggerated vulva

QNMyp TIL that Jimmy Carter, at 97, is the oldest living President, the longest-lived President, and also has the longest retirement ( 41 years ) of any President