Post * l7BY1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in the 15th century, England created a "Court of Requests" specifically to provide faster and more affordable law cases for the poor. It became unpopular with the regular courts and lawyers because it was so much faster and cheaper. One source says that Richard III founded it.

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XE4nj TIL Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term god has no coherent and unambiguous definition and/or that every other theological position assumes too much about the concept of god and many other theological concepts.

Z8ekR TIL that in 1801, a British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire may have stolen several priceless Classical Greek marble sculptures from the Parthenon and Acropolis and are currently located in the British Museuem

jbyN TIL Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge was found in 1996. There’s a conservation project to bring it to the surface.

EgdJX TIL to avoid detection by sats Indian scientists working on nuclear testing would only work at night and return things to normal place by morning

rN47e TIL that there is a type of honey called Mad Honey that cause hallucinations