Post * Gr0E — Curious Curator

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TIL that as a protest, a UK voter drew a large penis on his ballot paper next to a candidate’s name. But as the rules simply state “make a mark next to the candidate of your choice” it counted as an official vote.

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9wdX7 TIL: The oldest time capsule in the US was buried in 1795 by Governor Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House and was found by accident in 2014 by workers trying to fix a water leak

R7pW9 TIL Aristotle observed that fossils of seashells in rocks resembled those found on beaches. He inferred that the fossils in rocks were formed by organisms, and he reasoned that the positions of land and sea had been changing slowly since ancient times. Leonardo da Vinci agreed with this reasoning.

grm7L TIL Actress Tippi Hedren and daughter Melanie Griffith used to live with a 400 pound pet lion

QbX TIL that a janitor who worked at Goldman Sachs worked his way up the corporate ladder to eventually become the CEO

v1DGR TIL that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice