Post * p860O — Curious Curator

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TIL that Virginia has spent 100 years asking Minnesota for the return of a Confederate Flag captured at the Battle of Gettysburg...and Minnesota keeps saying no.

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Z8R4D TIL As of 2018, 73% of active female senators and over 50% of women in the house of representatives were girl scouts alums

6jEW TIL all British Army armored vehicles must have an electric kettle so the crew can brew tea without getting out. This rule was made after a WWII ambush, where a British tank squadron lost 29 vehicles to a surprise attack by four German tanks while the British crews were outside having morning tea

vRLx TIL Steven Spielberg played the office clerk in the last scene of The Blues Brothers

NjJ6 TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, though “His university records indicate that his exposure to ‘nuclear physics’ consisted of one class in 'atomic and molecular phenomena’ for which he earned an 'F’ grade.”

9YGpm TIL the first proto-bicycle was invented because a huge volcanic eruption sent ash around the world, changed the climate, led to famine and disease, and ultimately resulted in the slaughtering of horses for food -- a new mode of transportation was needed to fill the void.