Post * PYArG — Curious Curator

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TIL when a morbidly obese person is cremated, there are special measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of a "grease fire."

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9YxoX TIL that the term “Cup Of Joe” is named after Josephus Daniels. Daniels, a former secretary of the US Navy, banned the consumption of alcohol in the Navy. Thus, increasing the consumption of coffee which was referred to as a “a cup of Josephus Daniels” which was later shortened to “a cup of Joe”

E10ox TIL that Göttingen, a small German university town, was for centuries one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history, developing geniuses such as Gauss, Riemann and Hilbert. But its fall took less than a decade when its stars were pushed abroad by the Nazis.

M7eBa TIL an octopus mermaid (Such as Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid) is called a "Cecaelia", a modern term derived primarily from a black-and-white comic in Vampirella Magazine from the early 1970s featuring a woman/octopus hybrid character named Cilia.

GYRaJ TIL In the 1950s, the Egyptian Secret Service had their spy in London buy all of the James Bond books so they could analyse British espionage methods believing it was based on reality

vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.