Post * l7nZK — Curious Curator

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TIL The Romans started their calendars from March. So October meaning 8 should be the 8th month, September the 9th etc.

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OJ1R TIL that when astronaut Ron McNair was 9 he attempted to check out books from a segregated library the librarian called the cops and his mother. The police however supported his right to read.

8kLb TIL that the same company that produced the Zyclon B gas for Auschwitz also created the anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin

7rVjx TIL scientists developed a kind of "inverted sieve", which holds back smaller particles, while letting bigger particles through.

1a7Ed TIL that Pope Francis and Pope John Paul the Second are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters

X01xE TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake."