Post * OGnNa — Curious Curator

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Br8GK TIL that Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford(the discoverer of the proton) who was student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).

8eYe8 TIL that the 1981 film “History of the World, Part I” had no planned sequel. The “Part I” was a joke referencing Sir Walter Raleigh’s book “The History of the World,” which was intended to be published in several volumes - but only the first was completed as Raleigh was executed in 1618.

yV8Ga TIL Hildegard of Bingen wrote one of the earliest known constructed languages in the 12th century

Br1Pd TIL of Derinkuyu, the world’s deepest underground city, capable of holding 20,000 inhabitants.

MeLob TIL That Herman Goering's brother, Albert, was anti-Nazi and even enabled sabotage and resistance operations in Czechoslovakia during the war. He regularly used his brother's influence to get out of trouble.