Post * m10Ro — Curious Curator

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TIL between 1400 & 1782, around 40k-60k people were killed on suspicion of practising witchcraft, primarily in Europe. Some witch hunts would last for years and some sources estimate 100,000 trials occurred. Some regions burnt the suspects at the stake, of whom roughly 80% were women, most above 40.

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Lwpp TIL 80% of Canadian women use contraception, only 64% of American women do.

OQx7 TIL Oreos are actually a knock-off of a cookie brand called Hydrox that was created 4 years before the Oreo. People soon assumed Hydrox was the knock-off as Oreos became immensely popular.

axD0 TIL an animated movie about Vincent van Gogh is slated to be the first fully-painted feature-length film in the world (connecting 56,800 stop-motion paintings)

grmAW TIL that the person who published the first map with the word America, later tried to change the continent's name to Parrotland.

6EjaY TIL that George Washington missed living to see 1800 by 17 days. On Dec 12, 1799, he became ill from spending too much time in wet clothes due to not wanting to offend guests by leaving them in the rain. He died on Dec 14th and requested to be left unburied for 3 days so he wouldn’t be buried alive.