Post * PNne — Curious Curator

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TIL Zimbabwean president Mugabe celebrated his 91st birthday by dining on endangered wildlife, including two buffaloes, two elephants, one lion, two sables, and five impalas

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1bLP TIL that a black fur trader in the American West got captured by a band of Crow Indians and got mistaken for a Chiefs long lost son. He eventually became their Chief himself.

ep6EE TIL French physicists Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau made the first successful photograph of the sun in 1845, five years after the first photograph of the Moon. In a major technological feat at the time, the solar photograph had an exposure time of 1/60th of a second

mGwy TIL Before Van Morrison began his solo career he was contractually obliged to produce 31 songs for his label. He recorded 31 minute long, nonsensical songs in one afternoon, such as ‘Want a Danish?’ a song about wanting a danish

VB0GG TIL that in 1992, Zhang Shan was the first and only woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in skeet shooting competing against men. At the next Olympic games, men and women had their own categories.

XWQk TIL in an 8-hour workday, the average worker is productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.