Post * QWJL — Curious Curator

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TIL that Quentin Tarantino’s father, Al Pacino’s father and Patrick Swayze’s mother made an exercise video together called “Silver Foxes: Power Pilates”

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WpXX TIL that the programming language ‘Python’ is named after Monty Python

QMpk TIL Native Americans descend from three migrations from Siberia

rNk1M TIL about Lake Natron in Tanzania, which is so dangerously alkaline thanks to the magmatic limestone from a nearby volcano, any animal that dies and falls in is mummified. The only animals that go there are lesser flamingos, who use it as a mating ground, and even they sometimes die.

69147 TIL One of James Starley’s early inventions was a device that allowed a duck to pass through a gap in a fence, but stopped rats from following it, he would go on to invent the differential gear

E1Ex0 TIL about Sholam Weiss, a man who led a scheme that defrauded a life insurance company out of $450 million. For his crimes he was sentenced to 845 years in US federal prison, later reduced to 835 years, and his projected release date is November 23, 2754.