Post * j6gMN — Curious Curator

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TIL frogs will in fact try to escape a slowly boiling pot. The myth is based on 19th century experiments in which the frogs have had their brains removed before boiling.

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e0G6k TIL nearly a quarter of your bones are in your feet.

8eKKP TIL: The Japanese video game, Persona 2, took 12 years to come to America, partially because of Hitler and swastikas being included.

J1DDB TIL that in 1916 Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress, representing Montana. She ran and won again in 1940, and no woman has represented Montana at a Federal level since.

EgY4X TIL that the word "tornado" was banned in 1886 by the U.S. Army Signal Corps when issuing weather forecasts for fear of inducing panic in the public. The ban ended in 1952 when the Weather Bureau issued the first Tornado Watch.

YPYA TIL Jason Statham got his first film role, in Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, when Guy Richie spotted him selling dodgy jewellery on the streets of London.