Post * jEpn — Curious Curator

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TIL that a man rediscovered a technique to shoot 3 arrows in 1.5 seconds (or 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds), one of many ancient and medieval archery techniques that were lost and were thought impossible by modern archery

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dM5j TIL in the first draft of the Anchorman script, the story was about a planeload of news anchors who crash in the mountains and discover that the plane which they collided was carrying monkeys and martial arts equipment, leading to a battle between cannibalistic newsmen and star-throwing monkeys

dDReZ TIL that Canada has the most freshwater lakes in the world, more than the rest of the world combined.

nWDyG TIL about Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, who was murdered in the street by members of a government death squad because she had criticized human rights abuses in the country.

jNAen TIL activists tried to eliminate birthright citizenship from the constitution in 1942 to strip Japanese-Americans of their citizenship, claiming their “racial characteristics” made them “unfit for American citizenship.” It was defeated thanks to a coalition between the JACL, NAACP, and ACLU.

kJWL1 TIL About the Duck Who Became an Official Marine in World War II