Post * aYLb — Curious Curator

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TIL that before the French coined the term, “camouflage,” the British during WW1 called it “Dazzle-painting”.

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wLV4P TIL meth is so common in North Korea that suited elites in Pyongyang restaurants offer each other a “nose” after dinner, the middle classes take it as a cold cure or remedy for back pain, and the poor take it to ease the emptiness in their stomach.

4XPKb TIL The Western Roman Empire was founded by a man named Romulus and ended under another Romulus, while the Eastern Roman Empire was built by Constantine and lost under the same name, Constantine IX.

wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.

6EL8l TIL a 9 yr old Pakistani girl, Arfa Karim, was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) until 2008. When she suffered cardiac arrest in 2011, Bill Gates assembled an international panel of doctors to advise the local physicians treating her and offered to pay for treatment in the U.S.

9Y9X6 TIL the Canadian Medical Association voted in support of a ban of Mixed Martial Arts in Canada. They argued from a physician responsibility standpoint they could not overlook activities which cause injury and trauma to Canadians. They had previously come out against Boxing for similar reasons.