Post * ZpdGQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Suloszowa, a village in Poland, its entire population of 6000 resides on one street

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5VP5R TIL in the 1930’s, Mussolini, outlawed pasta. Instead of producing strong Italian soldiers, the pasta weighed the youth down and made them lazy. The real reason was that Mussolini wanted to sell more rice, a staple crop in his home region in Northern Italy, which caused a split with the South.

VQ7Q TIL the game “Assassin’s Creed” was purposely created to teach kids history under the guise of a bloody assassin video game.

GAZoG TIL that there's been a dramatic rise in babies born with syphilis, and that 40% of them die.

nel4r TIL the "rule" which says never to end a sentence with a preposition may derive from John Dryden's habit of translating his own English verse into Latin. He did so to "check whether his writing was concise and elegant, Latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare."

8evgZ TIL that an audio recording of a lock being opened provides enough data to reproduce the key required to open that lock, even with a cell phone's microphone.