Post * pYoKe — Curious Curator

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TIL the amount of days in a week varied in ancient civilizations. In Ancient Egypt there were ten days in a week. In Ancient Rome they originally had eight days in a week, and then switched to seven.

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4kOPN TIL the builders of the Greate Pyramids of Gizah (2500 BC) were not in their time called "pharaoh". The title is first recorded over 1000 years later.

7lb TIL Two Men Murdered 15 People Over the Course of a Year in Order to Sell the Bodies as Cadavers for College Students to Dissect.

BVLD TIL the standard size of 750mL for wine bottles corresponds to the average exhalation of a glassblower’s lungs

rN7EW TIL: The widely-reported study that men leave their wives due to illness more often than women leave husbands was retracted in 2015 because an error in the data analysis code classified "no response" from men as "choosing divorce" which rendered the original results invalid and skewed.

neOv9 TIL Max Yasgur, whose farm held the infamous 1969 Woodstock concert, was a Vietnam War-supporting Conservative Republican. Nonetheless, he saw the concert as a way to close the generation gap, as well as subsidize the cost of purchasing hay for his dairy farm.