Post * 9pDQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that up to 10 people contract the Black Plague in the US every year

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d86G8 TIL Dr. John R Brinkley successfully scammed the American public into believing he could transplant goat testicles into the scrotum of infertile men in order for them to conceive.

DrJV TIL after a bloody war with Ethiopia in 2001, half of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s Cabinet signed a letter asking him to reconsider his authoritarian style of government. He promptly charged his own ministers with treason and threw them in jail, where they remain today.

X0vRP TIL The oldest tree on the east coast of the US is a Bald Cypress tree in North Carolina that is 2674 years old

xkMD TIL that there are Lego sets made for people aged 16+ with thousands of pieces and detailed design.

kOvn1 TIL there are 45 genes which the human species has likely 'stolen' from other species, such as worms, fruit flies and bacteria. They have not simply been passed on from our primitive ancestors. Instead they have jumped directly into the human genome in the last couple of million years.