Post * 8anpP — Curious Curator

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TIL that the USSR was the first country to put Scotland's national poet Robert Burns on a postage stamp, in 1956 to commemorate the 160th year since his death.

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pKo8 TIL a Michigan woman traded her Twitter handle @DietDrPepper to the Dr. Pepper parent corporation for a truckload of bottled water, which she sent to Flint, Michigan during the contaminated water crisis.

vPOQj TIL Amedeo Avogadro's contribution to chemistry, known as Avogadro's law, did not initially receive much attention when he published his paper in 1811. It was only a century later that his work was recognized, when the King of Italy attended a meeting commemorating the paper's 100th anniversary.

Y91x TIL in the Roosevelt Roosevelt Room in The White House, Democratic administrations would traditionally hang a portrait of FDR, who was a Democrat, over the mantel, while Republican administrations would in turn hang a portrait of Teddy, a republican, there.

Lk4ZV TIL that Madam C.J Walker was the first black woman to ever become a millionaire in America!

78Y0P TIL: because CFCs are heavier than air, it takes years to reach the stratosphere and decades to be converted by sunlight into a form that hurts the ozone. So the damage we see now is actually the result from decades ago.