Post * Z8k54 — Curious Curator

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TIL the musical Cats is based on a series of T. S. Eliot poems

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rnax TIL During Apartheid in South Africa, Glasgow renamed the street which at the time was the address of the South African Consulate from St George’s Place to Nelson Mandela Place. Consular officials would be forced to look at his name when reading and addressing postal correspondence.

OGAMR TIL: In China, Mei Nü, or "Nowhere girls" refer to women who have money, no job, no education, no prospects, no looks, no friends, and no sophistication. The causes have linked to familial trauma or over pampering and spoiled leading to difficulties finding employment.

6EBMQ TIL Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution

Nrne TIL the modern men’s suit was first adopted by rulers, not businessmen, at the behest of Beau Brummell, a close confidant of George IV.

kOjp5 TIL that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.