Post * d8W1K — Curious Curator

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TIL that George Washington moved his slaves in and out of Pennsylvania every 6 months to avoid them taking advantage of a law that meant slaves residing in the state longer than half a year could claim freedom

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VZQD TIL that there is a ritual in Malawi called Sexual Cleansing which involves young girls after their first mensuration cycle to have sex with a community chosen man in order to get accepted by the community. This also is the reason of high HIV/AIDS rate there.

9e7p TIL in 1942 a British forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.

DQXAe TIL about the Boquila trifoliolata, also called the chameleon vine. It is the only plant known to engage in mimetic polymorphism, it can mimic the leaves of multiple host plants. Once the vines approach a host tree, the leaves begin to change their size, shape, color,... to match the host plant

W5nB TIL that the Guinness Book of Records recognizes the presidential election of 1927 in Liberia as the most fraudulent election reported in history. Although there were only 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time, Charles D. B. King, received 234,000 votes and won.

yVxYJ TIL India’s Independence Day (Aug 15) was chosen by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, because it was the 2nd anniversary of Japan’s WWII surrender, a day he personally oversaw as Supreme Allied Commander.