Post * KOp9w — Curious Curator

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TIL that lobsters were once only fed to poor people and prisoners

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W74WY TIL about General Butt Naked. A former child soldier and Liberian warlord who killed thousands, sacrificed many children and performed a lot of cannibalism. He is now an evangelical preacher and helps street children

OGjaX TIL the oldest surviving Alt History work is in Book 9 of Livy's History of Rome, in which he muses about Alexander the Great turning West and invading Rome

5jYn TIL that driving while drunk destroyed the Soviet spy network in the UK. After being arrested in London in 1971, Oleg Lyalin panicked and offered the names of every Russian spy. The UK government expelled 105 people from the country, and the USSR network in Britain “never recovered”.

AD6E7 TIL that there are 100 folds in a chefs hat and that the 100 folds represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.

rNNao TIL that until the later part of the 18th century, almost no one in western Europe washed their whole body with any regularity. This habit remains true for people of all classes, as even Louis XIV is said to have only taken three baths in his entire life.