Post * JgBm — Curious Curator

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TIL Ancient Chinese nobility killed themselves by eating a pound of salt

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N7gmP TIL about the Berlin Conference in 1884. 14 European countries held a 6 month long conference to formally divide Africa, so they an invade, overthrow existing governments, and pillage without fighting among each other. By 1902 90% of the continent was owned by European countries.

78eZP TIL point Nemo, the most remote location on earth, is a space debris grave yard. satellites, rocket parts and space stations are sent here when they crash down to earth.

455N TIL in 1938, Helen Hulick, a burglary witness in an L.A. trial, was jailed for five days for wearing slacks in the courtroom

NXX86 TIL that a snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but it can have over 25,000 teeth .

nByd TIL that in 1945, 900 Japanese soldiers were forced to retreat through 10 miles of mangrove swamp, during which hundreds were to be eaten by the thousands of saltwater crocodiles lying wait, in what is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the “Worst crocodile disaster in the world”.