Post * gMV17 — Curious Curator

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TIl there exists photographs of soldiers who fought alongside Napoleon (taken circa 1858).

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9wY86 TIL in 1918, the German Army ordered a Jewish census of it's troops to prove that Jews avoided combat. Instead, the census proved the opposite that Jews were over-represented in fighting positions and in the army as a whole.

W76J8 TIL that human's brains are inherently wired to put more focus on the negative than the positive in what Psychologists refer to as "negativity bias."

VnQ4 TIL a bag of Skittles contains fifty percent of your daily recommended vitamin C.

BO0b TIL that QR codes have been popping up in cemeteries. When you scan a code on a gravestone, you can read an obituary and see photos of the deceased.

xVRR1 TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.