Post * X0VaP — Curious Curator

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TIL one of the reasons Persia is now called Iran was listed in the official memorandum as “From the racial standpoint Iran (Persia) was the birthplace and cradle of the Aryan race"

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9YKGM TIL following his death at the Battle of Little Big Horn, the reputation of General George Custer was rehabilitated by his widow, who spent decades promoting his image as as the "gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand".

vYjD TIL that the number 17 (XVII) was deemed ‘unlucky’ by the Romans and Italians because the Roman numeral was an anagram for VIXI, meaning 'I lived,’ a reference to one’s own death. Thus, Italian buildings do not have a 17th floor and so forth.

e0ge4 TIL Arnold Palmer and Mr. Rodgers knew each other as children and are from the same town

OoJL7 TIL that, after Richard Feynman was named the world's smartest man by Omni magazine, his mother said, "If that's the world's smartest man, God help us.".

J1Bl1 TIL: In the late 1970’s, a radioactive Source of Cobalt-60 was smelted down to make rebar, and ~4000 people were exposed across Mexico and the US. The contamination was found in 1984, when a trucker took a wrong turn, into the Los Alamos Lab, setting off detectors.