Post * 0d1GR — Curious Curator

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TIL that "DB Cooper" was not the actual alias used by the infamous hijacker. It was the one that was mistakingly reported in the press and quickly spread.

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neR07 TIL of the Second Mexican Empire where Napoleon ruthlessly took advantage of a distracted America post Civil-War by engaging in an imperial plan to annex Mexico into the French sovereignty. Napoleon aimed to create a New Virginia Colony in central Mexico & exempted new colonists from paying taxes.

WRJN TIL Einstein wanted to be cremated and his ashes scattered with his brain in his head to “discourage idolaters” but the Doctor performing the autopsy put the brain in formaldehyde and kept it for himself.

GYYwG TIL that although outlawed in 1911, the ban on the Chinese practice of footbinding only began to be enforced six years ago.

p8Bp4 TIL that when Shaka Zulu's mother died, he ordered that any woman who became pregnant in the year of mourning was to be executed, anyone not sufficiently sad was to be executed, and calves would have their mothers slaughtered so that they would know his pain.

RmG6 TIL people in the medieval ages never actually believed the Earth was flat. It was a myth created during the evolution debate in the late 1800s.