Post * yQ7rl — Curious Curator

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TIL about Humbert of Moyenmoutier, who was sent by the Pope to carefully negotiate with the Patriarch of Constantinople. When the Patriarch failed to greet Humbert warmly, Humbert excommunicated the Patriarch in the Pope's name, creating the Great Schism, splitting the Christian church in half.

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rNAdo TIL The US President #44 is the first American president not to have seen a new state added in his lifetime.

ybJa TIL If a wild boar gets loose in St. Paul or Minneapolis the Commissioner of Agriculture himself has to go out and capture that wild boar by law.

ANLpn TIL that Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) wrote that criminals are distinguished from noncriminals by multiple physical anomalies and that these anomalies were able to predict the type of crime (theft, robbery, murder, arson)

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Y77AB TIL When Emperor Nero got his mistress pregnant, he divorced and banished his wife Octavia. When this led to a public outcry, he instead had her executed.