Post * Ke66 — Curious Curator

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TIL some ancient Greek statues were erected with money from fines of Olympic athletes who violated the rules of the games. They were intended to shame cheating athletes by including an inscription of the offender’s name.

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eppvD TIL Actor Christopher Lee, who famously portrayed Saruman, was also featured on the cover of Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album "Band on the Run"

NbvM TIL Members of the armed services are encouraged to salute anyone who has been awarded the Medal of Honor, one of the only instances where someone can be saluted by a person with a higher rank

Y7nyr TIL that Wan Hu, a 16th-century Chinese official, is said to have attempted to launch himself into outer space in a chair to which 47 rockets were attached. The rockets exploded, and it is said that neither he nor the chair were ever seen again.

vKwx TIL “sadist” and “masochist” were derived from the names of two of their most prominent practitioners. Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

jN8NX TIL about former American slave, John Berry Meachum, who began teaching classes for black people on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River to work around the state of Missouri's prohibition of black education.