Post * E5AV — Curious Curator

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TIL: Stepping on a strand of hair can potentially allow it imbed itself deep into your skin causing a lot of pain, this is called a hair splinter.

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0dP1p TIL in the US Civil War, US forces under inept General Ben Butler were repulsed in the first attempt at taking Petersburg in part by a scratch force of old men, young boys and jail inmates and is referred to as "The Battle of The Patients and Penitents" and "The battle of Old Men and Young Boys"

GAkL7 TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The university was founded in 1096, over 300 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire in 1428.

GYBDN TIL that sitting inside of a snowed-in car with the engine running can be deadly if the tailpipe is clogged with snow.

JPvk TIL a chimpanzee named Santino was known to collect rocks and pieces of concrete in the hour before his exhibit opened. Come showtime, he would hurl the dessert plate-sized rocks at zoo patrons.

m1nNv TIL that after Crassus was killed by the Parthians at Carrhae, his severed head was delivered to the Parthian king Orodes who was watching a play with the Armenian king Artavasdes. The head was then used as a prop in the play representing the severed head of a character in the play.