Post * oRkKR — Curious Curator

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TIL that Hyacinth Thrash wasn't the only survivor of the Jonestown Massacre. The other was 79 year old Grover Cleveland Davis who being hard of hearing slept through the death assembly. He died a year later.

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4Xjao TIL that the powder you see when you touch a moth is actually tiny scales, like on a fish or lizard. These scales give butterflies and moths their scientific name Lepidoptera (from the Greek Lepido = scale, and ptera = wing).

eBb TIL the sea monsters on maps were originally put there to indicate that it was uncharted.

D19Mg TIL You could have lasting brain injury without any obvious symptoms

GAwD5 TIL of Colin Fleming Brien, a WWII POW of the Japanese who survived his beheading, was buried alive, and dug his way out to make his way to a Japanese hospital where he recovered

9wkKm TIL that the oldest surviving globe in the world is named Erdapfel (in English, potato) doesnt feature the american continents since they weren't discoverd yet, and potato's originally came from the continents