Post * l7QA1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Belgian physician who first synthesized Fentanyl came 2nd in a 2005 Greatest Belgians poll

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LYEQ TIL filming for Rage Against The Machine’s “Sleep Now In The Fire” music video forced the New York Stock Exchange to shut its gates after band members attempted to rush the floor. “For a few minutes, Rage Against the Machine was able to shut down American capitalism,” said the music video director.

gpO7 TIL that an Australian man searching for a toilet stumbled across the oldest-known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in existence from 49,000 years ago

8aM5X TIL an actor in Nazi Germany lost his job for being Jewish. He went to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen. He returned to the stage claiming to be a self-taught peasant actor and was praised by the Nazis as "proof of the superiority of Aryan blood."

d1nE TIL of the algae octopus which is sometimes described as “the only land octopus” because it will routinely crawl over exposed tidal beds to hunt in the scattered tidal pools

R5j41 TIL that the Spanish flu epidemic was especially severe in Alaska, causing 51% of all deaths there in 1918-19. It was particularly severe for the natives, which was one reason a diphtheria outbreak there in 1925 was treated as such an emergency