Post * YyKP — Curious Curator

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TIL That to supplement his income while playing in the NFL, Terry Crews would paint his fellow teammates’ portraits.

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Qgre TIL that most Chinese people have never tasted cheese and consider it barbaric

JYXWj TIL Alexandra Elbakyan, a science graduate born in Kazakhstan due to the frustrations of publisher paywalls she found once returning back home from a research internship at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlantis, founded the largest pirate site for academic papers Sci-Hub

j6jyR TIL that when a woodpecker hammers away, their tongue retreats into its skull wrapping itself around the brain protecting it from the shocks

0ddNM TIL that in 1976, George Washington was posthumously appointed to the grade of 'General of the Armies of the United States,' the highest rank possible, to ensure that he could never be outranked.

R1P8 TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.