Post * 9O7G — Curious Curator

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TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.

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E1RWV TIL that Barbie has Parents, 8 siblings (2 of which are now discontinued) and chose never to have children

pYZvO TIL that the Australian Ibis (aka bin chickens) have learned how to eat the invasive and poisonous cane toad. They do this by picking the toad up, shaking it around to get it to expell its poison and empty is poison sacs, then washing the poison off with water.

0kaN TIL a dead woman Sat in front of her TV Undiscovered for 42 years.

XxvQ TIL that 70 scientists who worked in the Manhattan project signed a petition pleading for president Truman to delay using atomic weapons on Japan before considering an observed demonstration of its power, but it never made it to Truman before the bombings

7yDL TIL Director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval over all films in the Back to the Future franchise, says that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original film.