Post * LQ08Z — Curious Curator

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TIL It is a Federal Crime to make an unreasonable gesture in passing to a horse on Federal Land

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vw67 TIL that the doctor who discovered that hand washing prevented the spread of disease was committed to an asylum, where he died after being beaten by the guards.

4X6kw TIL of the "Secret Museum" of erotic Pompeian artwork. Since these objects were considered pornographic in the nineteenth century, they were never fully and permanently revealed to the public until 2000.

KO114 TIL of Arthur Brown, one of Utah’s first two senators elected by their legislature in 1896 after gaining statehood who, after leaving office, was charged with adultery multiple times and shot and killed by his mistress who was acquitted for reasons of temporary insanity.

ReW8 TIL Subotai was the primary General of Genghis Khan during the Mongolian conquest of Asia. He directed more than twenty campaigns in which he conquered thirty-two nations and won sixty-five pitched battles, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history.

Eg85p TIL that Coney Island, in New York City, was most likely named by Dutch settlers after the large number of rabbits they found along its coast.