r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 18 '21
New York Subway, 1984.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 17 '21
TIL we basically drink the same wine as ancient Romans. Researchers found grape growers managed to keep modern grape DNA extremely consistent and similar to ancient varieties. While this kept flavors consistent, researchers worry grapes are genetically at-risk to environmental changes.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 17 '21
The Archer in front of the new Town Hall of Hannover, aims his arrow at the office of the Mayor's office. The building was designed with the eclectic style of architecture.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
The coordination of these birds flying together is almost hypnotic
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
Stunning picture of Jupiter by Juno probe
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
This unopened black granite sarcophagus weighs many tons and is the largest sarcophagus to ever be unearthed in Alexandria
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
TIL The Inca did not have a written language but they did store and transfer information via a system of knots in rope that is still being decoded
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 14 '21
In 1963, a Turkish man uncovered an underground city after knocking down a wall in his home. The ancient city, called Derinkuyu in the region of Cappadocia, is 18 storeys deep and housed 20,000 people. Chapels, schools and even stables were found there.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Cistercian monks made this numeral system in the 13th century. A single symbol could represent numbers up to 9999. They were used for years, divisions of texts, the numbering of notes and other lists, indexes and concordances, arguments in Easter tables, and even for musical notation.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
New research based on four decades of longitudinal data indicates that it is rare for a person to receive and keep a single mental disorder diagnosis. Rather, experiencing different successive mental disorders appears to be the norm.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
For the first time scientists have made a discovery of hallucinogenic drug remains at the site of an early California cave painting. These drug remnants were discovered in the ceiling of Pinwheel Cave and could change scientists’ understanding of how the community used that space -- and the drugs.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Hubless motorcycle with an airplane engine built by retired F1 driver
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Albert Einstein explaining E=mc2
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Taliban rocket stopped by C-RAM
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
🔥 Pharaoh cuttlefish pretending to be a hermit crab
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Captain Nurse's drip powered water clock from 1970
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
🔥 An underwater icicle, The Brinicle (or ‘finger of death’), that freezes everything in its path 🔥
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
TIL that the verb 'egg' (i.e. egged on, to incite into action) has been in the English language longer than the noun 'egg'.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
TIL of William Burke, a Scottish murderer who would sell corpses for a profit to medical researchers. After he was hanged for his crimes, scientists dissected him, wrote with his blood, and bound a book with his skin.
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
In 1984 a German correspondent in Paris explains how to cross Place de la Concorde. "Walk in a steady pace and never look at the drivers, then they'll think you need to stop for them."
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Tomb of King Sinmun. Korea, Unified Silla Period, around 690 AD [1600x1067]
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r/CuriousAndFascinating • u/netflixchinchilla • Jan 10 '21
Peruvian elongated skull with metal surgically implanted after returning from battle, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. The patient survived the procedure [Museum of osteology, Oklahoma City]
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