Post * Lkl9Z — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jimmy Carter's siblings and father all died of Pancreatic Cancer, with all of his siblings dying within 7 years of one another.

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yjLp TIL the only Englishman ever to be Pope asked the King of England to invade Ireland.

grJA TIL that ⸮ is called a “percontation point” or “Irony mark” and denotes irony or sarcasm.

b6MeZ TIL that the German grocery chain, Lidl, opened a store in Dublin and used glass floor panels to display both 11th and 18th century archaeological ruins.

69EmX TIL of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin. A German football club who, after the only other team in Berlin were kicked out the league got an unexpected promotion to the top league. The German FA wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons. They remain the worst team in Bundesliga history.

woXYM TIL Byzantine princess Theophano, wife of Holy Roman emperor Otto was resented by the emperor's courtiers for her peculiar habits, including "luxurius tastes", like demanding to take a bath daily and using "a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth", instead of eating with her hands