Post * R9l1 — Curious Curator

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TIL Aladdin was added to The Arabian Nights by a French translator in the sixteenth century. It originally took place in China and he rubbed a ring, not a lamp.

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oBrBE TIL one of the reasons the Chinese never fully developed gunpowder weaponry was because their walls could sustain artillery bombardments. Even 20th century artillery guns had trouble piercing their walls.

OXwa TIL that a a 14-year-old North Korean schoolgirl drowned while attempting to rescue portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il from a flood.

Ny1P TIL that a group of artists built a secret 750 square foot studio apartment in a parking lot of a Providence, RI mall which wasn’t discovered until 4 years later.

KljJ TIL the Chainsaw was originally designed as a medical tool used in Symphysiotomy - the widening of a woman’s pelvis to aid in childbirth

mxgPE TIL in psychology and behavioral economics, the endowment effect is the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they own than acquire that same object when they do not own it.