Post * PYnan — Curious Curator

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TIL Ghandi covered the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a news reporter.

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4XWVa TIL in countries such as Lebanon and Syria, marriage between Druze and non-Druze is banned and frowned upon, and a Lebanese man who married a Druze woman was kidnapped by her family, who beat him up, pulled out some of his teeth and cut off his dick.

oBPlr TIL, not only are eggplants fruits, they're technically classified as a berry

yQVPX TIL that Michael Stevens of Vsauce uploaded his first video under the username 'pooplicker888'

yQgvX TIL about Giovanni de Ventura, a municipal plague doctor for the town of Pavia in late XV century Italy. He wasn't to require fees from treating patients, as the city of Pavia provided generously for him in terms of salary. He may also have donned the "beak doctor" attire.

gMdA9 TIL that the irregular shapes of the letters in the Comic Sans font type allows people suffering from dyslexia to read more easily. While many fonts use repeated shapes to create different letters, such as a ‘p’ rotated to made a ‘q,’ Comic Sans uses few repeated shapes, creating distinct letters.