Post * 4kl8a — Curious Curator

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TIL about John Day, who attempted to dive to 130 feet in a wooden diving chamber in 1774. After a few hours, he had not resurfaced and was eventually declared dead. Day is the first recorded death in a submarine.

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rN1J1 TIL: During the US Civil War, a father issued a writ of habeus corpus to get his underaged Son out of the US Army, when the writ was delivered to the camp, the provost had both the lawyer who had delivered the writ, and the Judge who had issued the writ arrested and imprisoned.

b0Q TIL that King Leonidas’s quote ‘Come and take them’ is the motto of the Greek 1st Army Corps

QNgAd TIL the mafia ultimately has its roots in Ferdinand I's horrendous mismanagement of the economy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and the Kingdom of Italy's subsequent failure to make anything better after its conquest of southern Italy

xV6Ak TIL there is a place called 'Canada' in Kentucky.

gr0wX TIL that wood pipes were used in Europe and the US to transport water underground.