Post * wL5V8 — Curious Curator

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TIL of Zipf's Law. In almost every language, the most common word will occur 2x as often as the second most common word, 3x as often as the third most common word, and so on.

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MemP8 TIL Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia.

wodvJ TIL: Yolanda Saldíva, the imprisoned 1995 murderer of the singer-star Selena, is eligible for parole next year in 2025.

kO0OW TIL that western mathematicians did not accept negative numbers for over 18 centuries. They treated them as absurd solutions to equations.

X0Pr TIL That the Eiffel tower was actually made in Romania, and each piece of metal reads “Made in Resita, Romania”

KD6B TIL drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano once bet $2 million on a soccer game. They each hand-picked a dream team of professional soccer players and flew them to Escobar’s home to play the game on his own private field (fast forward to 25:51).