Post * JpLj — Curious Curator

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TIL Stan Lee created Iron Man because he thought no one would like him.

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Vxg4 TIL the word “barbarian” originally referred to people who don’t speak Greek, because the Greeks thought people who spoke a foreign tongue sounded like they were saying “bar bar bar” all the time.

dBBZ TIL of Australian news anchor Karl Stefanovic, who wore the same suit on air every day for a year, to see if people would notice, and nobody did

16BG8 TIL that the only known portrait of the famous mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre is a caricature, and the only other depiction was discovered in 2005 to be a portrait of another Legendre.

06eM TIL Reptar from Rugrats was voiced by Busta Rhymes

R5RV1 TIL the Old State House in Boston USA, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, was slated for demolition in 1800’s. It was preserved in its original site only because Chicago threatened to transport it brick by brick and make it a National Monument there instead.