Post * JYxRQ — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1961 Charlton Heston led a demonstration against segregated restaurants in Oklahoma

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0dvRj TIL During the last Ice Age the ice mass could have been up to three kilometres thick

kOB8m TIL that when washing clothes with modern detergent, cold water is just as effective as warm water, while using 75% less energy

Wk0WB TIL Nazi physicists rejected Einstein's theory of relativity as "Jewish science"

rRLke TIL the greater rhea, an ostrich-like bird native to South America, is now represented by a small but growing wild population in northern Germany after some escaped from a game farm in 2000. Hunting was recently introduced to control the population.

69WdX TIL that in the 17th century, when coffee had made its way to Europe, some people reacted to it with suspicion or fear, calling it the “bitter invention of Satan.” In 1615, the clergy in Venice asked Pope Clement VIII to intervene. He found the drink so satisfying that he gave it papal approval.