Post * nedWY — Curious Curator

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TIL Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, a British comics magazine, first published in 1884 is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Sales of the magazine have been as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world"

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b99J9 TIL Africa has a miniature species of Antelope named the Dik-dik. Full grown adults stand only about a foot tall.

X0v6E TIL China’s Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only had 1 wife and refused to have concubines after his mother was murdered by one of his father’s consorts.

gMYBy TIL the plane with the longest wingspan to ever fly is the Stratolaunch, it has only flown once.

oMrK TIL that in 1849, Henry “Box” Brown, a 33 year-old slave born in slavery, mailed himself to freedom in a 3'x2'x2'8" (91x61x81cm) wooden crate. To get a day off, he burned his hand to the bone with sulfuric acid. Brown paid 86$ to be shipped from Richmond, Virginia to Philadelphia in 27 hours.

16VkW TIL None of the native species of bee in Australia are true honey bees. Social species of native bees do produce honey, but not much, as they are relatively primitive bee species. And the bees that do produce honey store it in small resinous pots which look like bunches of grapes