Post * YpL6G — Curious Curator

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TIL Piggy banks are not actually named after pigs; they date back to the Middle Ages, when a type of clay – called ‘pygg’ – was used to make pots that could store money.

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oRxOY TIL about Paul Deschanel, the eclectic French president who once walked out of a state meeting and straight into a lake, while fully clothed. He would resign shortly thereafter.

GY5b4 TIL in the time of the 1950s, Alfa Castaldi served as a reporter and he was in close relation to Ugo Mulas. Together they joined with other artists of various forms and lived what was recorded to be a bohemian lifestyle. Although Castaldi studied under an art critic while he was in college, the care

16ajW TIL that East India Company was actually a private corporation with an army of around 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the army of Britain.

wLKpE TIL When the Americans took the Concentration Camp, Dachau, they Gunned down the Surrendering Germans and took no Prisoners for a Month

OobGe TIL When the wreckage of the two ships in Franklin's Lost Expedition were found in 2014, Britain relinquished ownership to Canada in exchange just for a few relics, human remains, and any gold found