Post * djEQ — Curious Curator

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TIL During WWII, George de Hevesy used aqua regia to dissolve the Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck to prevent them being confiscated. He left the solution in his lab, where it was ignored. After the war, he precipitated the gold out and the medals were recast.

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7rX4x TIL about perpetual stew, a stew containing whatever is on hand and added to as needed. Constantly kept above the “danger zone”, it can be in the same pot for years if always above 140f, creating a perpetual cycle of adding and removing from it. It was often a staple of medieval inn meals.

4kRYb TIL that falling asleep while on watch duty during a war time could result in death or other lawful punishment according to the article 113 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

b9D9 TIL Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 391 days in jail since 2007 and has only spent less than 2 weeks in actual jail.

e0Xln Til about Scurvy, chronic vitamin C deficiency. "Bones that had previously broken rebreak. Old wounds open up. This is because one of the major effects of scurvy is that the body can no longer produce collagen, the glue of the body’s cells"

OBvY TIL: Nike’s inspiration for their slogan “Just do it.” came from a man who was a about to get executed, and his final words to the firing squad was “let’s do it!”