Post * QJQ6e — Curious Curator

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TIL The New Oxford American Dictionary made up the fake word "esquivalience" and inserted it into their dictionary. This false entry was included to expose any people who might copy Oxford's content and use it in their own work.

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OGYPg TIL there was a early 2000’s boy band called Blue and that I never heard of them because the lead singer said "Who gives a fuck about New York when elephants are being killed?”… 1 month after 9/11… which happened while he was in NYC…

4krrw TIL that the French waved the white flag as a symbol of military command.

9YjEM TIL that the British folk hero king arthur actually fought against the English. In the tale of king Arthur, he is a general and king of the Britons, who were the native Celtic people of England. He fought against the Anglo Saxons, who would go on to beat the Britons and found the country of England.

Y9ad TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.

4XG7N TIL of Tearoom Trade, where a sociology grad student did his dissertation on men having oral sex in the bathroom. He collected the data by pretending to be their lookout and then found their homes via their license plates, where he would then interview them under the disguise of a different study