Post * P18En — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2018 "The Passion: A Brickfilm" was Created as a Lego Adaptation of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

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JY9OV TIL that Chinese Paddlefish, one of the largest freshwater fishes, found mainly in the Yangtze river in China has been declared extinct in the wild after surviving 150 million years on this planet due to overfishing and construction of the Gezhouba Dam.

mA9x TIL five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist graffiti were sentenced by a judge to read and write reports on 35 books by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Khaled Hosseini, and Maya Angelou. They were also ordered to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.

KYmMQ TIL Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in Disney's Pocahontas, died horrifically in real life. After being tricked, ambushed & captured, women removed his skin with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into a fire as he watched. They skinned his face last, and burned him at the stake.

LQBmv TIL Whalebone corsets were not made of bone, but of baleen, a whale's filter plate.

W79L TIL Hundreds of millions of birds are killed each year colliding with manmade structures