Curious Curator

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TIL in 1979 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison planted 1008 plastic flamingos across campus. Ever since, Madison has embraced plastic flamingos; they are their soccer team's mascot and are even the city's official bird.

TIL That George Bonga, the first African-American born in the territory that became Minnesota, was also legally the first white person to be born in the state as all non-natives were legally categorized as white

TIL of Archibald McArthur, a successful Wisconsin lawyer who took a vow of poverty, later moved to Florida at age 79, and left his family members each $5, while leaving his remaining fortune of $3 million in today’s money to a stranger he met on a park bench.

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