Post * mnjY — Curious Curator

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TIL that a woman (Jeannette Rankin) was elected to Congress four years before women were granted the right to vote.

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AN7xn TIL that the country Bosnia and Herzegovina does, as the name may suggest, consist of two separate autonomous entities. However they are "The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" and "Republika Srpska" and this is entirely coincidental.

yQDxX TIL that 2520 is the smallest number divisible by all the integers from 1-10

8aWpL TIL Charles Seaver was an executive at a food company and is credited with getting raisins into breakfast cereal. Aside from being a successful amateur golfer, he was the father of both Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver and of Raisin Bran.

bbp7 TIL that Ben Sliney, the man that ordered all commercial planes to be grounded on 9/11, did so on his first day on the job.

Bg8ly TIL a hearing test for human babies was developed based on a study on how owls hear. The pupils in both owls and humans dilate when a new sound is heard