Post * RK11 — Curious Curator

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TIL Canadian Thanksgiving was the original Thanksgiving. The first one was celebrated by Martin Frobisher in 1578, who wanted to praise god that he survived his expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.

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YpMNB TIL: Only in the twentieth century did humans decide that the dandelion was a weed. Before the invention of lawns, the golden blossoms and lion-toothed leaves were more likely to be praised as a bounty of food, medicine and magic. Gardeners used to weed out the grass to make room for the dandelions.

4XrbX TIL That in 1973 Danny De Vito, at the very beginning of his career, was cast in "Scalawag" a largely forgotten movie directed by Kirk Douglas, however DeVito's mother Julia sent a endearing letter to Kirk Douglas to thank him for casting his son.

Wnjd TIL that lawyer who helped Honda fight against rollover bars for quad bikes was killed in a quad bike accident.

QNkgX TIL Olympia, Washington's Chinatown was once known as "Locke Town" as Chinese residents were predominantly from the Lok family villages in southern China. WA governor Gary Locke's grandfather settled in Olympia as a teenager from China in 1890. There is no more Chinatown in Olympia

yQZrX TIL: a woman escaped a serial killer who’d held her captive for 3 days, by waiting until he had left for work, then used a key an accomplice had left behind to unlock her chains. She then fought the accomplice, stabbing them with an ice-pick, before running out. It led to the killers arrest.