Post * xA41 — Curious Curator

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TIL human life expectancy has increased more in the last 50 years than in the previous 200,000 years of human existence.

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5VPDn TIL of Joice Heth who, in 1835, was sold to PT Barnum and took on tour and displayed as the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington

YA8G TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

KYJGQ TIL that during WWII, women were hired as human computers working in clusters, and the term "kilogirl" was sometimes used to refer to 1,000 hours of female calculation.

wpxP TIL The Egyptians, not Julius Caesar, were the fathers of the modern calendar. The Roman calendar was lunar and had 355 days. Egyptians knew it was 365 days because the Nile would peak on the same day each year. Caesar learned this from his affair with Cleopatra and created the Julian calendar.

7rb1Z TIL of Sir Ewan Forbes, an intersex British aristocrat and rural doctor who applied to change his sex in 1952. Afraid of possible ostracism, he alerted his patients, priest and friends in advance and found that they were “universally supportive”. He married his partner in a church a month later.