Post * mRgp — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Norse people carried their dead through a “corpse door” feet first so the corpse couldn’t see where it was going. Preventing the dead from returning.

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NXgLe TIL that Michael Jackson's Thriller album was the best-selling album in the U.S. for 2 years straight, sold 32 million copies worldwide by 1983, and was certified 34x Platinum by the RIAA in 2021, making it one of only two albums to ever get more than 3x Diamond certified.

VMgoD TIL that Archimedes estimated the value of pi with a polygon in a circle in a polygon. He made the diameter of the circle 1, so the circumference was pi. With the circle's diameter, he found the perimeters of the polygons. Therefore, the value of pi (the circle's circumference) is in between them.

kBN4 TIL It is a requirement for British tanks to have a kettle onboard for brewing tea.

okDY TIL Jack Nicholson turned down the roles of Travis Bickle, Gordon Gekko, Raymond Babbitt, Michael Corleone and Willard in Apocalypse Now, among many others

EgQRw TIL NATO article 5 doesn’t cover anything outside of Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.