Post * W71N4 — Curious Curator

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TIL about Jørgensen's law: in ancient Greek poetry, characters are usually unaware of the specific actions of the gods, unlike the audience, and thus tend to attribute miracles to "the gods" or "a daimon" or "Zeus."

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W7ggL TIL at the height of the 80's rise of the Japanese economy, the land value of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth as much as the entire state of California and the Japanese property market was worth as much as 4 times that of the US.

W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").

Z8KwG TIL that at the end of the bronze age (1200-900 BCE). Several ancient civilizations were invaded and in some cases conquered by an obscure force of "Sea Peoples". They were a contributing factor to the Bronze age collapse and their origin is still mostly unknown.

R5wBQ TIL that was film director Mike Nichols was the impetus for split up of Simon and Garfunkel

YOMd TIL that an Australian study looking at 91 patients who claimed to have had their drink spiked found that zero patients had actually been exposed to sedative drugs in their drink.