Post * Eg46P — Curious Curator

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TIL there's little to no evidence that ancient Roman culture discriminated social statuses based on skin color.

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nW0gY TIL there have been 3 major bubonic plague pandemics: Justinian's Plague in the 6th century, the Black Death, and, most recently, the third plague pandemic in the late 19th century which killed an estimated 10 million in India, 2 million in China, and up to 3 million elsewhere.

7rVV7 TIL: North Carolina has an "Unauthorized Substance Tax" where you purchase stamps to show you paid the taxes on your illegal drugs.

OPd7 TIL feral goats on the Galapagos Islands were eradicated by attaching a radio location collar to a “Judas” goat. When it returned to the herd all goats were shot except the Judas goat. When it relocated to another herd the process was repeated until only the Judas goat remained, which was then shot.

QNj5a TIL about Andarín Carvajal, a Cuban mailman that ran in the 1904 Olympic Marathon. He arrived at the race dressed in street clothes and during the race he stopped to chat with spectators, snatched some peaches from a spectator's car, ate some rotten apples, took a nap and still finished 4th

p8ZVZ TIL that the man who played the first zombie in the video for Michael Jackson's Thriller, as well as the zombie whose arm falls off, is a makeup and special effects designer who went on to help create Daft Punk's famous helmets, amongst other things