Post * Oo0Q1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book about a 4 man ship crew that ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker. In 1884 a 4 man ship crew ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker.

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oBg8E TIL Humphry Davy Was Addicted to Nitrous Oxide. And also downed a bottle of wine before inhaling. Hahaha Who wouldnt like to party with him :D

R5VZa TIL that when Freydís Eiríksdóttir, a 10th century Icelandic viking who was 8 months pregnant, was surrounded by hostile natives during a battle in America, she pulled a epic "Bring it on" move by picking up a dead man's sword and beat her naked breast with it, causing the natives to panic and flee.

WkobA TIL that the popular spiral depiction of the Milky Way is actually of another galaxy, Messier 74. Since we live in the Milky Way, we can't take a picture of it from the outside.

loA4G TIL that according to one jewish legend,shedims(Jewish demons,not necessarily evil) were born because god originally wanted to make some humans but the sabbath came and he could not do any more work and just treated the project as complete.

aEWb TIL when the incident at Chernobyl took place, three men sacrificed themselves by diving into the contaminated waters and draining the valve from the reactor which contained radioactive materials. Had the valve not been drained, it would have most likely spread across most parts of Europe.