Post * wLeb1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Aitabdel Salem spent 5 months in one of America’s worst prisons because no one told him his bail was just $2

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aRob TIL that the last descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died as a spoken language by the 1600s. It has survived until today as the language of religious services of Egypt’s 10% Christian minority-the Copts. The alphabet uses Greek letters plus extra letters deriving from hieroglyphics

yVdYv TIL Leonardo Da Vinci wrote backwards in 'mirror writing', writing right to left with all letters reversed. One theory on why he did this was because he was left-handed and didn't want to smudge the ink.

gYM9 TIL according to Jainism, time runs on a cosmic wheel with 6 eras. We’re currently in the 5th, a time of sorrow, little happiness, averaging 6 ft tall and a via http://ift.tt/1ZDAs7N

wo8PM TIL that northwestern Africa had a river running from the Atlas Mountains to the western coast of the continent. The river dried up sometime around 5000 bc.

6XMZ TIL If you order your steak well-done in a restaurant you are more likely to get low-quality, throw-away meat.