Post * ZpDNo — Curious Curator

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TIL There was an urban legend in the UK that Richard Bacon, the Blue Peter presenter who was fired for using cocaine, had snorted cocaine off the Blue Peter tortoise Freida during the run of the series

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nedWY TIL Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, a British comics magazine, first published in 1884 is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Sales of the magazine have been as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world"

v1o57 Today I Learned that there are ten honorary Harlem Globetrotters, including Nelson Mandela, Whoopi Goldberg, and Pope John Paul II

1axr4 Til ancient Mesopotamians had written accounts of solider PTSD dating to the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). They believed the disorder was caused by the spirits of enemies whom the patient had killed during battle

ADXdl TIL that Rick Moranis was the first choice to play Ace Ventura

v1kX8 TIL that Rome is the only city in the world that hosts both the embassy of China (PRC) and the embassy of Taiwan (ROC) and this is because Italy recognises PRC while Vatican recognises ROC.