Post * yVMbX — Curious Curator

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TIL that “The Lion Eating Poet in the Stone Den” is a Chinese poem in which every word is pronounced “shi.” It is readable in Chinese, but incomprehensible when spoken or when written in the Latin alphabet.

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m1l0p TIL German author Friedrich Nietzsche would send letters calling for the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot & called for military action against Germany. He called for the Pope to be jailed & all anti-Semites to be shot. He also stated he created the world & signed his letters as 'Dionysus.'

m1a8p TIL During his Nashville days in the early 1970s, EddieRabbitt had a pet monkey, Jojo. Before his Rocky Mountain Music tour, the monkey bit Rabbitt, leaving his right arm in bandages.

awAZy TIL several Mosler Safe Company vaults were installed in Hiroshima's Mitsui Bank building prior to WWII. After surviving the nuclear attack on the island, the company became renowned for the strength of the vaults and would be the gold standard for blast doors during the Cold War.

wLKDY TIL fiction writers are 10 times more likely to be bipolar, poets 40 times more likely.

p8DgA TIL: Kermit has been a staple of all Jim Henson shows and was never specified as a frog until Johnny Carson called him one after a Tonight Show appearance.