Post * e0v05 — Curious Curator

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TIL that schistosomiasis, a parasite infection that causes bloody urine, was so common in Egypt that French doctors traveling with Napoleon during his 1798 campaign described Egypt as the only country where men menstruate.

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jNGEE Til Horses originated in North America and spread to every Afro Eurasia and South America, only to become extinct in North America where they originated from. They were then reintroduced back to North America by humans. They have been in every continent including Antarctica now.

QJQA9 TIL of Arthur Boycott, the man with the longest overdue library book in history. He checked it out in the 1890s and it wasn’t returned until nearly 120 years later in 2016, by his granddaughter

R5e6a TIL about another wild incident in the somewhat chaotic history of 1970s California: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping. In a crack-brained scheme, 26 kids and a bus driver were kidnapped, buried alive in a truck trailer, and held for ransom. They escaped after 16 hours by digging their way out.

9ykB TIL that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone which was released 1997, is the only book to have sold more than 100 million copies since The Lord of The Rings which was released 1954-1955

8a8vb TIL That because of Daylight Savings Time and the loss of an hour of sleep, the Monday after clocks ‘Spring Forward’ sees an increase in fatal traffic accidents.