Post * KY09a — Curious Curator

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TIL The Caesar Salad was not made anywhere or when near Caesar in the Roman times. But instead made by an Italian American In Mexico.

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gMD4 TIL Everyone used to sleep twice in once night, they would wake up at midnight to have sex and read or tell stories.

JYnrk TIL a man robbed two bank after covering his face in lemon juice, which he believed would hide him from the cameras because it was "invisible ink". His case led psychologists to describe the Dunning-Kruger effect, where ignorance leads people to overestimate their knowledge.

gyKb TIL of the Greenland shark, that eats polar bears, and can live up to 500 years old.

R5LAa TIL Because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights, fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of density testing, and ultrasound has to be used instead.

OlAg TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.