Post * r5bd — Curious Curator

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TIL that the myth of Pandora’s box was originally “Pandora’s Jar” but through a bad translation it became accepted as a box.

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6ElRm TIL Jason Mraz gave up singing to start an avacado farm. He is now so successful that he supplies avacados to Chipotle

gM6YW TIL: The medical symbol for male and female are originally the alchemical symbols for Iron and Copper respectively, and originally they referred to the Greek gods of Mars and Venus.

M70eA TIL there is a cave in Romania called the Movile Cave that has been sealed off from the outside world for over 5 million years and contains its own unique ecosystem.

m9MM TIL that every known prime number above 3 is one more or less than a multiple of 6 (6n±1)

5Yp6D TIL during the Tokyo housing bubble in the 1980s, the combined housing value for all properties in Japan was worth four to five times that of the United States, and fifty percent higher than that of the rest of the world.