Post * P1MlE — Curious Curator

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TIL the Anga people of Papua New Guinea smoke their dead to preserve them

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4XDQR TIL squirrels are more intelligent then I thought

awKa9 TIL The fencing masters, Bonetti, Agrippa, Capoferro, and Thibault, from the iconic Princess Bride dual on the cliffs of insanity were real people.

B4BK TIL the reason rubbing alcohol burns when you put it on cuts is because exposed nerve cells in the cut that normally detect hot temperatures have their pain threshold lowered by alcohol - which causes our body temperature to cause a burning sensation.

wXrY TIL that a scientist breached security at Los Alamos by leaving an orange on his desk, and that any spherical object became a “nuclear secret” once it passed into a secure area of the laboratory, as it could be taken as a model for the plutonium pit that drives a nuclear weapon.

X0ZmQ TIL since ancient Latin lacked the letters J and U, Julius Caesar's name would have actually been either “GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR” or “GAIVS IVLIVS CAIVS.” The standard abbreviation was “C. IVLIVS CÆSAR,” reflecting the older spelling.