Post * 5YNZn — Curious Curator

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TIL that each year, a social group called the Alfalfa Club, which includes elites from both business and government, celebrate General Robert E. Lee's birthday with a banquet

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v1Nwr TIL at Live Aid Bono noticed that a girl was being suffocated in the crowd, tried to get security to help her out, but when they didn’t understand what he meant, he jumped off the stage and helped security pull her out. She later said that Bono saved her life that day.

Y79nd TIL of Francesco Datini, a 14th century wealthy businessman who before his death in 1410 founded a secular charity fund(which still exists today) and left them his entire fortune. Among his possessions were 150.000 business records which the fund preserved nearly intact, tucked under a stairway

yQDQa TIL that before the handover UK official discussed about moving 5.5m Hong Kong residents to Magilligan, Northern Ireland

ANxLn TIL in 1924 French colonists deliberately introduced an insect to Madagascar in order to kill off plants which native pastoralists used as food and animal feed - leading to a famine which killed hundreds and displaced thousands, but cleared land and made labor available for French sugar plantations

dvk7 TIL That while filming the movie “The Descent,” the scene in which the creatures first came into contact with the protagonists was the first time the actresses had ever seen the monsters. They had no idea what was coming, and their’ screams of terror were real.