Post * vjXx — Curious Curator

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TIL Val Kilmer named one of his bison James Brown “because it likes to spin around in circles and looks like the kind of beast who might beat up his wife.”

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vBlB TIL: There is a Blue’s Clues that teaches Lucid Dreaming

Wkn58 TIL that Marie Antoinette’s last words were, “Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.” She stepped on her executioner’s foot on her way to the guillotine.

VMjYG TIL: Yosemite National Park in the US was named by the Mariposa Battalion, which forcibly removed all natives in the area. Mistakenly believing the tribe was named "Yosemite", the name was selected by a man struck by the land's beauty. Turns out, it means "They are Murderers" in the native language.

oBAp7 TIL - German saboteurs blew up a 15 tons of gunpowder on a barge in Seattle, 1915.

grrWX TIL in the Industrial Age, some foods were colored with poisonous things like various colors of lead and copper salts. Food coloring was used to hide bad quality and to imitate other foods as well. This made food poisoning common during this time.