Post * b6Ova — Curious Curator

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TIL that William and Ellen Craft, two people enslaved in the American South, fled to the North in the 1840s, with Ellen (who was more light-skinned than William) posing as William's male master. They escaped to the U.K., where they raised five children, and eventually moved back to the U.S. in 1868.

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mxnKp TIL between 33K and 55K Canadians fought in the American Civil War. 29 were awarded Medals of Honor, one was a noted Union Spy, and one was a Union Army officer who formed and led the detachment that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln.

PBGJ TIL: That there is so much space debris in earth’s atmosphere that in future it may just become dangerous to leave earth and we may get trapped in our own garbage.

mxlDR TIL purple butterfly stickers on incubators are for infants with a twin whom passed away

b8b0 TIL that Mister Rogers once had his car stolen and had it returned 48 hours later. After he filed a police report and TV picked up on it it was returned with an apology letter.

vPpL4 TIL the constant mash and tug of starts and finishes is strong enough to detach the retina from drag racers' eyeballs. In the 1970s and 1980s some drag racers were knocked unconscious inside the cockpit by a horsepower-caused recoil dubbed “tire shake”