Post * 8a5E8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Lions once roamed in Southern Europe, mainly Ancient Greece, the Balkans and southern Russia.

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kJkwm TIL that Peterborough, ON, Canada has the highest hydraulic liftlock in the world AND was the first city in Canada to use electric streetlights

J1DnQ TIL Mild bell peppers didn't exist before the 1920s

oRRbA TIL Rudolf Vrba & another man escaped from Auschwitz by noting that after prisoners went missing, searching only lasted for 3 days. They hid in a hole for 3 days outside the inner perimeter fence, & on the 4th day got away.

Oo59R TIL: Einstein’s last words were spoken in German to a nurse who didn’t speak German and are lost for ever. During Einstein's autopsy, the pathologist stole his brain. He kept it for forty years in a tupperware container, before being convinced to return it to Einstein's relatives.

l7OxN TIL Much of Canada's National Parks were built by suspected enemies of state, conscientious objectors, and the jobless. In 1943, 440 German POWs were brought to Riding Mountain National Park where they captured a bear and made it the camp mascot.