Post * 9gY7 — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a Native American tribe in Mexico that are known to be able to run up to 430 miles without stopping.

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6EYaw TIL Johnny Cash performed dressed all in black, in contrast to most of the major country acts in his day – rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to explain that he wore black for the poor and hungry and those betrayed by age or drugs.

ANwYa TIL of ISO 3103, the international standard for brewing a cup of tea

OGL9R TIL there's a bacterium visible to the naked eye called Thiomargarita magnifica, reaching up to 2 cm long

VMQ7Z TIL The window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces . In England and Wales it was introduced in 1696 and was repealed in 1851, France and Scotland also had window taxes.

kmX7 TIL all of the JFK files are scheduled to be opened by the end of October.