Post * LQgMZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Romans used to use urine in clothing dye and even to remove stains from clothes!

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Zp5eG TIL In 1932 Sprinter Liu Changchun became the first athlete to represent China in competition at an Olympic Games. Liu's life was made into the 2008 film "The One Man Olympics"

ADkp4 TIL thst all St. Patrick chased out of Ireland was paganism, and snakes have never existed in Ireland

ne5lW TIL the first commercial fax service, between Lyon and Paris France in 1865, by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, was created 11 years before the invention of the telephone.

J1Ly8 TIL I found out that SEGA's name comes from SErvice GAmes.

9eLM TIL that a New York woman was hospitalized after a bit of a dentists drill lodged near her eye. The dentist was dancing to “Car Wash” at the time. The patient later sued the dentist for $600k.