Post * kOrN4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Scientists haven’t excavated the tomb of China’s first emperor because they are not allowed to, and because it is (or was) surrounded by a “river of mercury”

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oVZE TIL Kit Kats in the USA taste different than Kit Kats everywhere else in the world

neXdd TIL that Jeannette Rankin was the first women voted into the United States congress, famously before US women were allowed the right to vote. As of today, she remains the only woman Montana has elected to Congress.

oBLOW TIL sandplay therapy, the playing with sand & objects in a tray, can facilitate a healing process as the unconscious expresses itself in the sand & influences the sand player. The effectiveness of play therapy is comparable to that of psychotherapy

Zpm4R TIL that a chipotle pepper is a jalapeño that has been dried and smoked.

4PGg TIL that a British prisoner of war named Edwin Rose missed the liberation of his camp because he fell asleep on the toilet and slept through the battle. He woke to find everyone else gone, so he shaved, put on his best clothes and walked out to freedom.