Post * yQroa — Curious Curator

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TIL fungi are 2.5 billion years old and are technically our ancestors

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v184L TIL: The Vikings Beat Columbus To America By Nearly 500 Years (And Were Repeatedly Repelled By Native Peoples)

neWPY TIL that the Italian painter Raphael was often accompanied by fifty scholars daily; when Michangelo greeted him one day, he said "You walk surrounded by an entourage like a general," and Raphael responded, "And you, you walk alone like an executioner."

4XrJa TIL that Lurleen Wallace, the first female governor of Alabama, was elected after term limits prohibited her husband, noted segregationist George Wallace, from running again. She had married at 16 and had never held a paying job prior to becoming governor.

LQeRP TIL The U.S. Navy estimates that heavy barnacle growth on ships increases weight and drag by as much as 60 percent, resulting in as much as a 40 percent increase in fuel consumption

lo47r TIL Elvis Presley, throughout his entire career, performed in only three venues that weren't in the United States. The three venues were all in Canada. Presley performed in them during brief tours in Canada in 1957.