Post * v1VG7 — Curious Curator

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TIL farming in Japan is done mostly by senior citizens -- 63.5% of farmers are older than 65

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1Ykr TIL that Marlon Brando refused his Oscar for The Godfather as a show of support for the native Americans in the film industry.

8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)

ANWk4 TIL: In November 1918 in the Netherlands, Social Democratic Workers' Party leader Pieter Jelles Troelstra, declared a socialist revolution and demanded in a speech before parliament for the government to surrender power. The movement failed from lack of support from even within his own party

wL9aW TIL that 2nd-century Roman artifacts were found at an archaeological site in Óc Eo in the Mekong delta area of southern Vietnam. It's likely that this is the Asian city known to the Romans as Cattigara.

ADwja TIL Napoleon’s penis was allegedly bought in 1977 by Columbia University professor emeritus John Lattimer for $3,000, who passed it on to his daughter before he died in 2007.