Post * 0GrR — Curious Curator

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TIL that literacy in North Korea is measured by their ability to write the name of their Dear Leader.

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6Oa7 TIL of Lafayette, a Frenchman from the revolutionary war who later toasted “to the perpetual union of the united states. it has always served us in times of storm. one day it will save the world”. American troops sent to France in world war 1 visited the grave and said “Lafayette, we are here”

N76ZE TIL the East-West Dichotomy is Cultural and not Geographic, which is why Siberia and Australia are Considered Western Despite Being in the East.

D1lwY TIL of the California Genocide, an oft-forgotten event in U.S. history due to occurring at the same time at the California Gold Rush. The Native American population of California decreased from as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870. Tribes such as the Yahi were hunted to extinction.

XdlQ TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a phenomenon in which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence

orxK TIL in the 1930s, penicillin was so precious that it was re-extracted from the urine of patients to conserve every last bit of it.