Post * xKb1 — Curious Curator

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TIL naturalist John Muir “kidnapped” Theodore Roosevelt from a party and took him into the wilderness to see the beauty of Yosemite, in turn prompting the U.S. president to double the number of national parks

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Xdbk TIL that ancient Athens was rocked by a political crisis when someone vandalized all of the city’s sacred penis statues.

0dAyp TIL That the 1995 Sci-Fi Classic 12 Monkeys is Inspired by/Adapted from the 1962 Experimental Film La Jetée, Which is Told Almost Entirely in Still Images and Narrative Voice Over

5YrBQ TIL about Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously went missing, preventing him from revealing that he had invented the single-lens motion picture camera, long before Edison who is widely credited with the invention.

ANlwg TIL the architect of the Sydney Opera House left midway though construction and never returned to Australia. He died some 40 years later having never seen his work.

nMbY TIL after the American Civil War, many southeners immigrated to Brazil, where slavery was legal, and formed a comunity that last until modern days, called the “Confederados”