Post * jjQj — Curious Curator

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TIL Arnold from “Hey Arnold!” had 4 different voice actors throughout the series

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J1MV8 TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia.

OGYgg TIL that perhaps the most famous female American poet, Emily Dickinson, only had 10 poems published of the roughly 1,800 she composed

LkZRv TIL the stereotype of Native Americans saying "how" as a greeting comes from the Anglicization of the Lakota word "háu", which was used by men to greet other men.

LQjmV TIL that Galileo’s telescope wasn’t strong enough to tell what Saturn’s rings were, so he thought it was a larger central planet closely flanked by two smaller ones. He described the rings as Saturn’s “ears.”

wJP8 TIL Japanese typewriters didn’t have thousands of keys - They only had one key