Post * g97 — Curious Curator

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TIL that lactose intolerance is “normal,” and most mammal species develop a natural lactose intolerance after weaning.

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bAv9 TIL George Lucas refused to send an original print of Star Wars for preservation at the National Film Registry

woDDo TIL The diet of roman gladiators was carefully currated, but research suggests that said diet was carb rich with little protein. Instead of being muscular, like they're depicted in art, they were chonky with large amounts of subcutaneous fat, likely because the fat acted as an extra layer of armor

ADRkn TIL In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. In China, she is being called the "three noes" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas

R5kN8 TIL about the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the USA entered World War I against Germany. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence.

oRJ4o TIL the discoverer of the coelacanth, naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, had to fight with the taxi driver, the museum curator, the morgue director (it was summer), and the cold storage supervisor. Then the taxidermist botched the job, and the photo film fell into the mud and got destroyed.