Post * PLYJ — Curious Curator

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TIL Bill Gates can leap over an office chair from a standing position

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xV441 TIL that Father Damien, who cared for the lepers in Molokai, realized that he contracted leprosy when he accidentally stepped on scalding water and felt nothing.

e0QE4 TIL that ketchup was first sold as medicine. In 1834 Dr. John Cooke Bennet invented the idea to add tomatoes to ketchup (a fish or mushroom mix at the time). He believed that adding tomatoes added the vitamins and antioxidants needed to cure indigestion, later prescribing tomato pills to patients.

b9aLQ TIL The Boer War Siege of Mafeking, the British held out with no artillery against a numerically superior force. They hid their numbers by shifting units around in the trenches, and dressing as women to do civilian work. They recommissioned century old guns and improvised an armored train.

yj48 TIL - It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes to completely drain the average human of blood

LkVmd TIL Judge Judy makes $47 million a year ($900,000 per work day)