Post * yQpgl — Curious Curator

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TIL those holes in the mortar around my brick home are called weep holes and a sign of good masonry work.

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rWlw TIL that in 1898, a Bayer businessman named a drug they’d developed, “Heroin,” as it was expected to be a heroic cure for tuberculosis. Ironically, illicit heroin use later contributed to an epidemic resurgence of the disease.

ka1W TIL Greek scientist Eratosthenes was nicknamed ‘beta’ because he was second-best in the world in almost every field

x4G1 TIL: in 2010 a man had live explosives on his bag for three days unknowingly, when he got a phone call and a bomb squad showed up at his home. The explosives were placed and forgotten on his bag during an airport security exercise.

4XNPb The world’s first ever known wheelie to be successfully attempted, c. 1936.

E0Vd TIL Scientists isolated bacterium from a man’s intestines & used it to fatten mice specially bred to resist obesity. The microbe made up 35% of microorganisms in his digestive tract & a diet formulated to kill off those bacteria reduced the levels to below detection. He lost 113 pounds in 23 weeks.