Post * QkrM — Curious Curator

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TIL In the Avengers when Loki talks smack to Black Widow, he calls her a mewling quim which means cunt

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XERVr TIL that 6 million pounds of space dust settles on earth's surface every year.

7rBKX Today I learned that there is a specific name for places that feel like an altered reality

6PjY TIL an 18 year old German without permission, flew a Cessna plane from Helsinki and landed in Red Square, crossing what was thought to be a completely impenetrable airspace

78pEp TIL nine women, called "The 9 Nanas," kept a decades-long secret that even their husbands knew nothing about. For 30 years, they gathered at 4 a.m. to bake cakes, send care packages to people, anonymously pay bills and buy clothes for those in need.

Y7Xav TIL that the ancient Greek poet, Hipponax (late 6th c BC), in a viciously satirical poem about a sculptor, called him "metrokoites" -- a motherfucker. It is the first known use of the term.