Post * Z8WRD — Curious Curator

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TIL that only 39 people in the world has climbed Everest and K2 without botteled oxygen.

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1AgX TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots’ translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.

xVjbb TIL Charondas - a Greek lawgiver - once issued a law saying that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived to the Assembly after hunting with a knife still attached to his belt. He committed suicide in order to uphold his own law.

0dZZv TIL 1878 was the year of the last witch trial - for perspective of how recent that is - it was only 18 years before the invention of the radio. It took until 1918 to finally declare witch trials were a thing of the past.

Wk7x8 TIL that Key West declared war on the U.S. and then hit a U.S. soldier on the head with stale bread then immediately surrendered

xV1JD TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room he pointed to the fake client. The real defendant was found not guilty