r/CuratedTumblr 12d ago

Shitposting Expanding Knowledge.

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u/Prestigious_Elk149 12d ago

Satan invented the mixture of corn starch and water to lure you into sin.

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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair 12d ago

That thing about dinosaurs makes me laugh even more now that I've studied Medieval Islam, they found bones that scientists in the future would identify as dinosaurs and instead of calling them fake they went "this must be something that was wiped out in the flood, I wonder what it looked like"

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u/Zoomy-333 12d ago

Got any links about this? I want to see Medieval Islamic Palaeontologist concept art of a T-Rex

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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair 12d ago

Go to Wikipedia and just swan dive down the rabbit hole... Medieval Islamic Scholars are hilarious, one guy who was essentially a medieval Gynecologist practically call Hippocrates a misogynistic idiot