Post * yVBM — Curious Curator

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TIL Since Latin had no general word for “yes”, the French created one out of the latin words for “that is it” (hoc ille>oil>oui) and the Spanish created one out of the latin word “thus” (sic>si)

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Ypx TIL that in 1968 John Lennon, inspired by a large amount of LSD, called an emergency meeting of the Beatles to inform them that he was in fact, Jesus Christ reincarnated.

Z8g5a TIL That there is such thing as a ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI/UVBI)

KO5gR TIL of the Battle of the Wabash or St. Clair's defeat. When an American army of 1000 men was slaughtered by a Native American force of near equal strength in 1791. Only 28 men escaped unscathed with a casualty rate of 97%, it remains the largest defeat in American history.

KYoaR TIL As part of a promotional campaign by Sega in the early 2000s, Fred Durst signed several Dreamcast consoles and battled other players in a UFC game. The campaign featured a magazine ad with a cartoon Fred Durst saying, "If you get your ass kicked, it's probably me on the other end of the line."

KvkJ TIL of MASSIVE, a software package used to generate thousands of actors with their own artificial intelligence. It was used to generate the battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings films.