Post * pYrPb — Curious Curator

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TIL Clear Lake in California, is the Oldest Lake in North America.

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OGaVX TIL that peaceful protests are historically ten times more likely to lead to change than violent resistance

JYkNj TIL in 2017 Emma Gibson was born 24 years after being concieved in-vitro. She was biologically one year younger than her 25-year-old mother. In 2020, the record was broken by her sister Molly, who was born 27 years after being conceived

e0nyg TIL Christmas used to be illegal in Massachusetts and much of New England, and remained taboo in that part of the country until at least 1870, when the Feds declared it a national holiday

rRoBw TIL of Sonya Golden Hand, a Russian female con artist who committed several carefully planned robberies and stole tens of thousands of rubles. She was eventually captured and exiled to a penal colony. She was moved into solitary confinement after trying to escape the colony dressed as a guard.

8VX4 TIL that Stranger Things was rejected 15 to 20 times by various networks before it was picked up by Netflix. Network execs had balked at the idea that the show featured four kids as the lead.