Post * vP5dr — Curious Curator

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TIL cashews have a fruit, and they look like mushrooms before harvest

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nWrYW Till in 1936 a group of Imperial Japanese Army officers attempted to coup d'état Japan

4XdDJ TIL about James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley), an esteemed military surgeon who reformed medical standards across the British Empire. He performed one of the 1st C-sections where both mother & child survived. After Barry's death in 1865, it was discovered his assigned sex at birth was female.

0BrA TIL: Nixon sent champagne and a note saying “Justice ultimately prevails” to Mark Felt after he was pardoned by Reagan. 30 years later, it was revealed Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” who helped bring the Watergate cover-up to light.

mMBE TIL a driver license in Arizona expires on your 65th birthday and until then, drivers only need new photos every 12 years.

9wJYD TIL in 1900 British representative Frederick Hodgson demanded to sit on the sacred Golden Stool of the Ashanti people which led to an uprising that ended with 3,000 casualties on both sides and annexation of the Ashanti Empire, which had resisted encroachment for decades.