Post * PD1L — Curious Curator

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TIL Seth Rogen was considered too old to play the character he wrote based on himself in the movie “Superbad.” Jonah Hill was cast instead, despite being only a year and a half younger than Rogen.

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9YGEQ TIL the Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber Haber-Bosch process of artificially generating ammonium nitrate was not only responsible for the entirety of the Axis powers explosive ordinance capability in WW1, but also for our present day capacity to feed a multi-billion population

WkDLY TIL about an emotion liget(native to a tribe in Philippines), it doesn't have an exact translation in English, Renato Rosaldo(who went to live with that tribe along with his wife for some time in 1967) couldn't descibe it to westerners at first but then he felt it when his wife died.

D1ovV TIL of "Hammer" Simwinga, a Zambian man who has helped stop poaching in North Luangwa Nat'l Park. Most villages near the park relied on poaching for income. Simwinga eliminated the need for poaching for 35K+ people in 60 villages by teaching sunflower planting, beekeeping, & sustainable farming.

BARe TIL A German doctor for the mentally-ill King of Denmark, managed to become the “de facto” regent and instituted many progressive reforms between 1771 to 1772 including the abolition of torture, censorship of the press and ban of slave trade in Danish colonies. He was later executed and dismembered.

BrJ4L TIL: The infamous & ill fated Gallipoli campaign of WWI, to capture the Dardanelles from the Turks, was the idea of then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.