Post * W7pDd — Curious Curator

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TIL that lack of sleep is more likely to kill you faster than starvation according to psychiatrists

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lAd5 TIL in Scotland, a group of students went to a modern arts gallery and left a pineapple in an empty exhibit to see if people would think it was art. When they returned four days later, not only was the pineapple was still there, it had been covered with a glass case

a8Nx0 TIL While Michelangelo was painting the Last Judgement, Papal MC Biagio de Cesana spied on his work. And complained that it was not worthy of the Sistine Chapel. In response Michelangelo painted Biagio into the fresco, as the depiction of Minos being dragged to Hell with a snake biting his penis.

D45r TIL if your name is based on Scottish ancestral names, Mc means “son of”, and “O” means grandson of.

ygAV TIL David Ogilvy, a founder/forefather of modern advertising, despised outdoor ads: “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes… chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”

kOX84 TIL that the first regiments, i.e. military units named as such with a relatively modern organization, started to be formed in the 16th century by private contractors with kings and other state entities. We still have examples of the contracts that were signed for this purpose.