Post * L5oV — Curious Curator

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TIL Fred Rogers from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood wrote 200 songs for the show, including “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”

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PYdOG TIL the word āss in Old Norse means god.

N0ob TIL Harvard prof. Dr. Edward Clarke asserted that women should not be allowed to attend college. If young women studied too much, they would divert blood away from the uterus to the brain, rendering themselves “irritable and infertile.”

D184j TIL about The LUKE Arm, a high-tech prosthetic arm with fingers that can move with your thoughts and mimic the feel of objects, inspired by the robotic hand that Luke Skywalker got in the Star Wars film “The Empire Strikes Back".

4kneX TIL that the Immaculate Conception was NOT that Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus … ….. It was that she herself was born without sin …. Immaculada .. (thanks Dad)

QJdkp TIL Land rover enthusiasts (in the UK) can hire a Land Rover hearse for their funerals. The company's slogan "ONE LIFE, LIVED IT" plays on the popular matra "One life, live it" repeated by Defender owners.