Post * wLBXW — Curious Curator

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TIL The Irish word for spam email is turscar. Originally, the word was used to refer to dead seaweed that was washed up on the tide.

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nWXJ7 TIL a 2,200 year old tomb contained crystal cups that looks EXACTLY like what we use today.

8aKXL TIL that for several years Uganda has had the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the world. Ugandan's drink of choice was created specifically protest British colonial law.

VBAGB TIL that the term “oxymoron” means “brightly stupid” and is therefore an oxymoron having the same meaning as “sophomore”

Jrm1 TIL an eerie prophecy attributed to Nostradamus regarding the 9/11 attacks was in fact fabricated by a college student in 1997 to show how easily such prophecies can be misused.

5Y0KB TIL of a sociological theory that posits most Americans are believers of a "civil religion" - which enshrines sacred symbols such as the flag, claims America's prosperity is due to divine providence, and idolizes soldiers and veterans as martyrs for a higher American purpose