Post * vyQx — Curious Curator

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TIL that a 50 second “movie”, released in 1896, of a train approaching the camera, caused moviegoers to panic and run to the back of the room to avoid the train.

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KOJMQ TIL that in Hindi (the language predominantly spoken in India), yesterday and tomorrow both share the same word कल (kal). The only way to tell which one is being used is the context and tense of the sentence.

6E1rJ TIL After illegally demolishing a historic London pub that survived the Blitz, a property developer/lawyer was ordered by court to rebuild it brick by brick.

69YaQ TIL that Joe Frazier (undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973) fought most of his professional career legally blind in his left eye.

VAKm TIL a black woman in 1828 won a lawsuit against a white man who sold her son into slavery. She was the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man.

L08V TIL that in the mid-1990s homeless children in Miami developed a vast, elaborate, and consistent mythology that spread by oral tradition throughout the community as a coping mechanism.