Post * QK8E — Curious Curator

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TIL: The closest that we can get to the language of Jesus (Aramaic) is Syriac, the language of Syria.

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QNDYL TIL to his pique, but the merriment of his children, Winston Churchill found two of his cousins named on a list of arrested Nazi sympathisers

6EdX8 TIL If humans keep fishing at the current pace, there will be no more fish left in the oceans by 2048: The existing world fishing fleet is two to three times larger than the oceans can support and 85 percent of the world’s fish populations are either nearly extinct or on the way to extinction.

Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.

m1vPE TIL that the father of the Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger, Stu, loved picking up young hitchhikers in the ‘60s & ‘70s as it gave him an opportunity to brag about his son. Robby’s dad was also the one who got Ray Manzarek his Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, which was an important part of the Doors’ sound.

GAWwE TIL a linguistic study discovered that winter workers in Antarctica started to develop a new accent. They noticed a change after measuring the participants' vocal characteristics before and after their visit. This is the result of them being isolated as a group and interacting with only one another.