Post * j6MZn — Curious Curator

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TIL like "R.I.P." many ancient Romans had "NFFNSNC", non fui, fui, non sum, non curo, inscribed on their graves meaning “I was not; I was; I am not; I do not care”. A epicurist philosophy.

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NJA1 TIL The concept of using a card for purchases was described in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy used the term credit card eleven times in this novel, although this referred to a card for spending a citizen’s dividend from the government, rather than borrowing.

8aQ7X TIL that Czechoslovakian car company, Tatra, sued Ferdinand Porsche for patent infringement, due to similarity in design between the VW Beetle and the Tatra V570. Hitler said he would "solve his problem," subsequently invading Czechoslovakia in 1938. The lawsuit was dropped soon after.

gMEVA TIL of the 'Merci Train'. 49 box cars sent from France to the US filled with personal items donated by the French people as a 'Thank You' for food & supplies donated to them following WW2. One car was delivered to each state, and many states still have theirs housed in local museums.

nplo TIL Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library for 52 years, researching more than 350,000 books during his decades of work for Believe it or Not.

Oox6 TIL that, according to a mating theory called Hypergamy, a woman will always encounter instinctive urges to leave her current partner in favor of someone she percieves to be of “superior” status.