Post * OGVEL — Curious Curator

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TIL that the names of the Hogwarts Houses were first scribbled on the back of an Airplane Vomit Bag

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D1ZRg TIL: A group of participants received a mug and were told they owned it; a second group was only shown the mug. When asked how much they would be willing to sell the mugs for, their asking price was more than twice of the second group. The “endowment effect“; we overvalue what we feel we own.

b9vX0 TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a Pro-Black movement in 1985, killing 11 people, including 5 children. The only person to go to jail, was the only survivor.

B4Rb TIL John Quincy Adams was sworn into Office by placing his hand on a law book rather than the Bible

8ygX TIL WD-40 was originally developed to prevent corrosion in nuclear missiles

a8eG0 TIL about the Greek philosopher Polybius, who wrote the "Doctrine of Anacyclosis". It describes the rise, fall, and reformation of civilizations, from his experieince with the fall of the Greek and rise of the Roman civilization