Post * p8BBG — Curious Curator

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TIL Some Native American Indian Nations believe in a mysterious man, a handsome brave who wears white buckskins, and brings gifts to Indian children. His name is 'Handsome Fellow'.

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neyno TIL the numbers (1-10) that we use every single day were actually made by Indians and spread by Arabs who found it very easy to use and adopted it into mathematics and is actually called Arabic numerals, because Europeans discovered it via the Arabs during the 6th century. Is this common knowledge?

eLdL TIL that very famous Hawaiian song/tune “Aloha ‘Oe” was written by the last Queen of Hawai'i, Liliʻuokalani, who transcribed it while imprisoned after a coup that ultimately lead to Hawaii’s annexation into the U.S.

jNMWM TIL The reason we find some smells bad is because our brains have evolved to react with disgust to the smells of thing which are major disease vectors - things such as vomit or rotting carcasses. The greater the risk of disease, the more offensive you would find the smell.

OoJaX TIL:Pinbal was banned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America's big cities. It was a game of chance, not skill, and so it was a form of gambling. In fact, one of the key parts of pinball: the flippers, weren't invented until 1947, five years after most of the bans were implemented.

yQl4l TIL: Ireland has 0.0006% of the worlds population but supplies 37.8% of global blood exports. This is due to a higher than average amount O blood types.