Post * pKxQ — Curious Curator

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TIL George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed. He died 42 years before they were discovered.

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1aRv8 TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.

b6Ww9 TIL about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese workers from the U.S. for more than 60 years from 1882 until 1943

o7Ar TIL that up until Pearl Harbor, the shoulder patch of the U.S Army’s 45th Infantry Division was the swastika.

aw9v0 TIL Children in Ireland leave a pint of Guinness out for Santa Claus instead of milk.

8aDjP TIL the FBI has a very specific definition for 'serial killer': someone who has intentionally killed at least 3 people, but not all at once. There must be so-called ‘cooling off’ periods between each murder.