Post * p8aDO — Curious Curator

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TIL that In 2009, the film Braveheart was second on a list of "most historically inaccurate movies" in The Times.

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0wlJp TIL in 1687 John Moore, a Black man living in England, bought his way into the elite body of the City of York, granting him the right to bear arms, fish in the city's rivers, and graze his animals on the city's meadows. He remains the only Black person awarded the Freedom of the City of York

6ZVQ TIL a bacteriologist killed 90% of all wild rabbits in France in the span of 2 years when he gave a disease called Myxomatosis to 2 rabbits in his backyard.

rNwwM TIL – Looking at the rocks lower left of the famous portrait depicting Napoléon's crossing of the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, it is seen that the names of Hannibal and Charlemagne, who had previously crossed the Alps, were engraved.

dNlr TIL Scientists have turned skin cells into pea-sized blobs of living brain that are equivalent to 9-week-old fetus brains

WkVjX TIL that elephants are very good swimmers: once an elephant was rescued from the ocean 10 miles off Sri Lanka coast: it got caught in a current off the coast near Kokkilai but it was still swimming