Post * 1O0P — Curious Curator

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TIL that J.P. Morgan personally led a reverse-bailout of the US economy. Twice.

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Zvg4 TIL Steve Wozniak accidentally discovered the first way of displaying color on computer screens, and still to this day does not understand how it works.

wo8gE TIL Between 2011 and 2020 the second most common cause of death in aviation crashes was suicide by pilot. A majority of these cases were small planes only occupied by the pilot.

78e67 TIL Bananas are the world's oldest fruit

xVPjk TIL that female slaves in the American South would chew on cotton root to abort a pregnancy, decreasing the production of more slave children

e0eWJ TIL J. R.R Tolkien, Otto Frank (The father of Anne Frank), and Adolf Hitler where all present as foot soldiers at the battle of the Somme.