Post * e0enE — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1339, French soldiers mistook hare making noises as an English attack. William II, Count of Hainaut quickly knighted 14 squires for battle. However the English attack never came and, after the reason for that became clear, those knights became known as the Knights of the Hare

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KOAoR TIL, Tennessee Aquarium in the United States is home to an electric eel that uses its electrical discharges to post from its own Twitter account when it emits electricity at a high enough threshold.

jNpnp TIL Rich kids perform better in the Marshmallow Test. A marshmallow is put in front of a child. If they manage 15 mins without eating it, they can have another one. The ability to resist the marshmallow is mainly determined by the child's social and economic background.

8e1gV TIL the federal chemical weapons ban was used against a woman who tried to poison her neighbor due to an affair and the case went to the US Supreme Court in "Bond v. United States"

l8Z5 TIL that Paul Newman’s food product line, “Newman’s Own” donate all proceeds after taxes to charity. They have raised over $330 million so far.

wLDvJ TIL that after the pandemic began, many investors purchased the wrong Zoom stock, getting shares in a defunct Chinese hardware company, instead of the calling app, Zoom Video Communications. This meant that the wrong Zoom stock price soared by 1800% before the SEC stepped in.