Post * mkGY — Curious Curator

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TIL Steve Jobs ate at his biological father’s restaurant, who years later boasted to Mona Simpson (Steve’s sister) about it, having no idea that Steve was his son.

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ooLL TIL James Earl Jones used to freak out truck drivers by using his Darth Vader voice on the CB radio.

LkYkQ TIL tattoos in Japan (Irezumi) were banned from 1868-1948. Traditional Japanese tattoos were associated with the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) as they were used to mark the skin of outlaws. To this day they retain a stigma of criminality and many businesses still ban customers with tattoos.

e0xMn TIL the recently opened ancient Egyptian sarcophagus of Mer-Neith-it-es dates back to around 600 BC. The Pyramids of Giza date back to around 2600 BC, so the pyramids in the time of Mer-Neith-it-es would be as old as Jesus is to us. Ancient Egyptians may have considered the pyramids as ancient.

e0E0J TIL the food known as Hush Puppies were named so because during civil war era, escaping slaves would feed these to the tracking dogs tasked to hunt them down. Slaves would feed the dogs while urging them to 'hush puppy'

n0Xb TIL that Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live, became totally blind yet still continued to publish. He was able to perform computations in his head and had a remarkable memory.