Post * m1wnv — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a woman in England who can see 99 million more colors than almost everyone else. And her father is color blind.

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E1b8p TIL: The Mexican Constitution is the first such document in the world to set out social rights, serving as a model for the Weimar Constitution of 1919 and the Soviet Constitution of 1918.

wLwr8 TIL in an effort to convince senators in 1990 to vote in favor of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 100 disabled people shed their crutches and assistance devices and crawled up the capitol stairs in an effort of direct action to demonstrate the need for disability accessibility.

E1neV TIL that originally all peppers used in Tabasco sauce were grown on one 3-mile long, 2.5-mile wide island (Avery Island) in Louisiana. Today, all peppers are still picked by hand, and much of the salt used in Tabasco production comes from the same island, which is also a salt dome.

Wk6k8 TIL about Liviu Librescu: a Romanian-born scientist, engineer, professor, teacher, and Holocaust survivor, who heroically held the door of his classroom closed during the Virginia Tech shootings sacrificing his life while the gunman continuously shot through the door, saving 22 of his 23 students.

l7NNa TIL In 2006, Disney traded ESPN sportscaster Al Michaels to Universal for the character rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney's original creation before Mickey Mouse.