Post * VMmwp — Curious Curator

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TIL Ukrainian KGB directorate repeatedly reported to Moscow on systematic safety breaches during Chernobyl construction works between 1976 and 1979 and reported in 1984 on deficiencies in the third and fourth reactors

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QNv0p TIL The world's oldest love poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin a.k.a. Istanbul 2461, was written in a cuneiform tablet and used in sacred fertility rituals.

Kv74 TIL The Germans answer their phone by stating their surname. No “hello”. No “bueno”. No “moshi moshi”. Just [insert last name].

xVNQD TIL that South Korea has never postponed a general election, not even during the Korean War

4e0R TIL that Su Hui, a fourth century Chinese poet, wrote a poem in the form of a twenty-nine by twenty-nine character grid. Each line can be read forward or backwards, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This arrangement allows for 2,848 different readings.

8eek8 TIL The British and American versions of Dennis the Menace were created independently and released on the same day in March 1951