Post * M74nA — Curious Curator

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TIL that Valentines day is the day that Saint Valentine was beheaded for supporting soldiers getting married.

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lX5V TIL if you tape two halves of a ping pong ball to your eyes, and stare at a red light while listening to the radio tuned to static, you will have complex and vivid hallucinations. The Ganzfeld Procedure.

JYPQm TIL the earliest born human to be photographed is Conrad Heyer, a revolutionary war veteran who crossed the delaware with George Washington and was born in 1749.

VMXxp TIL Pope Gregory IX condemned the black cat as an incarnation of Satan, and consequently, it was the death warrant for the animal. This worsened the Black Death a century after Gregory's time because the plague was spread by rats which were unchecked in Europe due to the decline of cat numbers.

xZ5D TIL A scientist had to name an octopus species. She thought it was “just so cute” she considered opisthatoothus ADORABILis

8a4N8 TIL that men have nipples because we all start out as females in the womb. By the time the Y chromosome distinguishes a fetus as male, the nipples have already formed.