Post * MJb0 — Curious Curator

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TIL Nazis once bred violent super-cows in an attempt to resurrect the extinct aurochs of German lore.

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l7vyB TIL of the University of Bologna, the oldest in the Western World. A public university established in 1088, it's never been out of operation and counts over 80k students.

6JZW TIL Garfield was never supposed to be funny, Jim Davis made it solely to make money.

KOB49 TIL that the Walther PPK, the firearm famously used by James Bond, was the same used by Adolf Hitler to commit suicide

a790 TIL in the past 100 years, 80% of the biomass of fish in the world’s oceans has been lost.

4X1oX TIL Rags, who became a World War I dog hero, was originally just a stray pup picked up by a couple of American soldiers in July of 1918. He carried messages from one US infantry division to the next tucked under his collar. He was buried with military honours when he died in 1936.