Post * rNL14 — Curious Curator

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TIL about doodle grids -- a method for scaling up artwork without a traditional grid.

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4Bvw TIL Fritz Joubert Duquesne lost his family and farm in the Anglo-Boer War, became a German Spy and Traveled the world under different identities till finally he had his revenge on the British Field Marshal that gave the order.

d8pVE TIL that the term "Judeo-Christian" in reference to a common set of values and traditions was not widely used until the 1940s, when American military chaplains attempted to promote religious inclusivity during wartime memorial services.

oBEbK TIL that on the last day of his presidency, President Andrew Jackson admitted that he had but two regrets, that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun."

N7E91 TIL Uddalaka Aruni was one of the first philosophers in recorded history and lived a few centuries before the Buddha. He attracted students from far regions of the Indian subcontinent, asking metaphysical questions such as whether there is something that is eternal and unchanging

AN06B TIL Most American serial killers are Boomers with 43 killers compared to 6 from Gen X and 0 Millenials. There go Millenials, killing another American tradition.