Post * WkWAL — Curious Curator

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TIL some 19th century Japanese artwork depicted westerners with the whites of their eyes as blue because the artists were confused about which part of the eye was supposed to be blue.

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YGDW TIL In Canada, text messages to landlines are converted into voice messages, so friends or family members who don’t have a mobile phone can listen on a landline. English and French supported.

W7OjL TIL Mickey Mantle, Hall of Fame CF, tore his ACL in his rookie year during the 1951 World Series. He went on to play the rest of his 18-year career on a torn ACL.

4195 TIL that surgeon Robert J. White transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes and lived for nine days.

wLePW TIL: David Bowie's likeness was stolen for DC comic's version of Lucifer. Quote - "You must draw David Bowie. Find David Bowie, or I’ll send you David Bowie. Because if it isn’t David Bowie, you’re going to have to redo it until it is David Bowie"

oPdL TIL that 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler, who was unable to publish his dissertation as it contradicted the geocentric model held by the Catholic church, decided to rewrite it as a work of fiction about a man traveling to the moon. It is now considered the first modern science fiction novel.