Post * JYoP8 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1776, all US states were slave states. It wasn't until 1780 that a US state, Pennsylvania, ended slavery.

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0wM5y TIL that tennis balls are green/yellow because they were the easiest for viewers at home to see on their colour TVs. Before that, they were white

wL4wY TIL the term "Byzantine Empire" only came about a century after the Empire had fallen; the Byzantines called themselves Romans, and others called them Greeks

e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.

69D6X TIL that the writings of the Roman doctor Galen accounts for one-eighth of all classical Greek literature that survives

Y7QDP TIL that during the last invasion of Britain in 1797, French soldiers looted a Welsh church and burned its Bible and pews for warmth before surrendering to locals—some of whom were just women in red shawls.