Curious Curator

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TIL When William The Conqueror of England died, the body exploded when they tried to stuff him into the too-small stone coffin.

TIL that Julius Caesar had a comb-over which he was self-conscious about

TIL Cato the Elder(a notoriously uptight grouch) expelled a man from the roman senate for embracing his wife in public and in front of their daughter. Cato went on to say that he never hugs his own wife, except during thunderstorms, and added that "thunderstorms make him a really happy man"

TIL that in Ancient Rome, the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.

TIL about Roman aristocrats drinking copious amounts of remarkably toxic lead wine lol

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