Post * GYpAj — Curious Curator

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TIL there's a 15,000 mile long hiking trail in Canada that goes from coast to coast.

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grX1b TIL while most primarily known for her role on "Charlie's Angels", Farrah Fawcett was only a cast member on the show for one season.

neyB9 TIL about the eggshell skull doctrine, that states a person is responsible for the damage caused by their otherwise reproachable actions regardless of the victim's underlying condition.

LQoWr TIL the Sixth Crusade was mostly conducted through diplomacy and involved very little actual fighting. Jerusalem was ceded to the Crusaders through Treaty of Jaffa (1229). The reaction to the treaty in both the Christian and Muslim worlds was largely negative.

loAvN TIL that Imhotep was an Egyptian architect, physician, and advisor to four pharaohs. He lived around 2667-2600 B.C. Imhotep practiced early medicine nearly 2200 years before Hippocrates and designed Djoser’s step pyramid at saqqara. He is the only Egyptian besides Amenhotep to ever be fully deified.

e01w6 TIL of the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary", a myth from the Middle Ages about a plant that sprouted sheep instead of fruit. For hundreds of years people would write about & even draw this wool-covered plant. We now know what it was: the cotton plant.