Post * 5YX6r — Curious Curator

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TIL Ancient Egypt already had physicians with specialities, like 'shepherd of the anus' or 'doctors of the tooth'

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j0Qv TIL that in 2015, the authorities of the Westfjords region of Iceland have repealed a 400-year-old law that dictated that any Basque people found in the region could be legally killed on the spot

Nk61 TIL Steve Jobs has no public record of giving to charity

kOxNd TIL On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs shot her three children and drove them at 5-7 mph to the hospital. Her 7 yr old daughter was already dead, her other 2 children were in critical condition. She'd also shot herself in the forearm. She claimed she'd been carjacked. She was sentenced to life plus 50 yrs

vPeJD TIL that during the Apache Wars in the American Southwest, the Apache would cut the Army's telegraph lines but reconnect the ends together with a strip of leather to make the break in the circuit nearly impossible to find.

GlmQ TIL there are 12 U.S. cities with a population of 1.