Post * kOxwd — Curious Curator

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TIL that John Mulaney started drinking at 13 years old and that the psychiatrist his parents made him go see as a teenager once described him as “one part nice kid, one part gorilla that wants to kill the other half.”

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MApW TIL that the Republican Party hasn’t won a Presidential election without a Bush or Nixon on the ballot since 1928.

oBO4A TIL that the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Ancient Egyptian, was found in 1799 during the French military expedition to Egypt, by a French Army engineer captain named Pierre-Francois Bouchard. Bouchard had been part of a unit tasked with restoring an old fort, where he spotted the slab.

kJlr5 TIL the "stuntman" in the James Bond 'Live and Let Die' crocodile jump scene was actually the owner of the farm. He did it in 5 takes.

gk4b TIL In Ancient Sparta boys were punished for not answering questions Briefly and Wittily enough

e0Lvn TIL that sections of the Great Wall of China were first built in the 7th century BC to try and stop the constant invading and pillaging by Mongol hordes. This indicates by the time Genghis Khan was born, Mongols had a 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 year history of being intimidating war-saavy plunderers.