Post * Ovg4 — Curious Curator

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TIL That Transformers the Movie (1986) starred the voice acting of Leonard Nimoy and Orson Welles

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nWBvP TIL: Horses are in fact native to, and originate from North America.

9YjYX TIL of a theory that suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians in the first millennium BC

Mxn7 TIL that while Japan is 62nd in terms of land size and 10th in terms of population, it has the 3rd largest economy in the world. Not only that, but it has the 2nd lowest homicide rate in the world, and 2nd highest life expectancy.

BrZ9L TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army.

OPQ7 TIL that British soldiers ate the hallucinogenic Jimson weed during Bacon’s Rebellion, they spent eleven days in altered mental states.