Post * rNaOM — Curious Curator

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TIL The Colors on a Barber Pole would have a Blue Stripe if a Berber Also performed Medical Procedures

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N76K1 TIL that mixing alcohol with cocaine starts a chemical reaction in your liver, producing cocaethylene (a stronger longer lasting form of cocaine). After some time it is released back into your bloodstream. This is why some people can overdose after they already seem safely passed out.

VByR8 TIL While on trial by the oligarchic regime that ruled Athens at the time, a politician named Theramenes gave an impressive speech that seemed to be swaying the jury. In response, the regime had a number of goons openly carrying daggers to stand in front of the assembly, as an intimidation tactic

9KAQ TIL Trappist beers are brewed in monasteries, most of which are located in Belgium. The beer is brewed, either by the monks themselves or under their supervision and the profits are donated to charity for social work and to help persons in need.

g6M8 TIL When Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba He banned the board game ‘Monopoly’ and ordered every set to be destroyed because He perceived it as the pure embodiment of capitalism

LQ5Nv TIL in the 1970s, musician Gordon Sumner of Wallsend, England, had a habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes when playing with a jazz band in northern England. The bandleader thought it made him look like a bee or a wasp, prompting the nickname "Sting".