Post * wYJ8 — Curious Curator

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TIL That as a peasant of the feudal age you had no right to mill you own grain. Millwrights would come to your house and break your milling equipment to enforce their monopoly. This is the reason many quern-stones are found in broken condition.

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yW4J TIL that orange carrots were NOT selectively bred by Dutch farmers in the 1600s to honor the Prince of Orange. It’s a tale, and there’s no documentary evidence for this story! The real history is far more complex, and more interesting….

MVMK TIL that on May 30, 1883, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede, which killed at least twelve people. To prove the bridge was safe, P. T. Barnum led a parade of 21 elephants over it.

E99X TIL that Kim Jung Il wanted to make his father a quilt from the softest material in the world so he, with the help of the North Korean populace, killed 700,000 sparrows for their neck feathers.

e0jE4 TIL the Pressure at the center of the Earth is the same as 47,700 elephants balanced in your head.

mxlWo TIL facing rising unprovoked shark attacks, Australia is deploying shark detecting drones above its busiest beaches. Software detection rates are 90%, while human accuracy when viewing aerial images is only about 25%.