Post * WE9L — Curious Curator

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TIL Ohio & Minnesota have special license plates for DUI offenders

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yVBKV TIL that Neapolitan ice cream was created by the head chef for Prussian Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Pückler owned an Ethiopian girl whom he purchased at a slave market in Cairo when she was just 11 years old, remaining his sex slave until her death at 16 from tuberculosis

doNZ TIL that the guy who made the Wall Street “charging bull” statue still owns it, as it was originally Guerrilla Art.

b6g6N Today I learned virtual reality dining is being created that uses electrodes to make you taste different foods and even feel them in your mouth, their texture and you chewing it! Sooo weird! What if one day we can create a reality within a reality that can’t be discerned from each other?

XEyPQ TIL That the City of Manchester gets it's name from the Celtic name 'Mamucium' which means breast shaped hill.

R7NA1 TIL that a Greek man named Heron Alexandrinus, who was born in 10AD, invented the first steam engine, called an Aeolipile. His design was forgotten and never used until 1577.