Post * kOVLE — Curious Curator

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TIL Austin St. John, the original Red Power Ranger, went on to become a Paramedic.

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4XWlw TIL that Australia has technically been an American company since 2009 registered in Washington DC under the name of Commonwealth of Australia, LLC

e0ld4 TIL that Dr James Barry the first surgeon to successfully perform a cesarean birth and advocate basic hygiene in medical settings, was born Margaret Ann Bulkley and only had the truth of his biological sex revealed after death

lo11a TIL Australians don't traditionally celebrate Halloween, and its increasing popularity there is often considered to be an example of encroaching American cultural imperialism, despite it being a millennia-old Celtic European holiday

MeaRm TIL our closest non-primate relative is the flying lemur. They are one of the inaccurately named animals as they cannot fly and are not lemurs but colugos

5Yd19 TIL the first person sentenced to the stocks in Boston was Edward Palmer, the carpenter who built the stocks. His crime? Charging too much for building the stocks.