Post * 4kbw6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that baby carrots are just cut up pieces of normal carrots, and not a different plant.

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NXmyQ TIL that John Rae, aided by the inuit, discovered that Franklin's lost Arctic expedition had starved to death and committed cannibalism. When Rae reported this the British public refused to believe their sailors could resort to such acts, with Rae being condemn as a idiot for believing the inuit.

LQEZ0 TIL a song charted for 3 weeks in Billboard in 1979, despite never being sold or played on radio. It was lost for 37 years and thought to be a hoax until a recording was discovered in 2016.

vPbx TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn’t believe him until a “teacupful of the brain” fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod

MeQkK TIL the present-day Washington State was originally called "Columbia", but Congress forced the name change to "Washington" in honor of George Washington and to avoid confusion with the nation's capital, the District of Columbia

W791Y TIL that a man divorced his wife of 70+ years after finding her secret affair letters with another man from 60 years earlier