Post * GAKQG — Curious Curator

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TIL until the 1950s France served alcohol with children's school lunches

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mxoJx TIL Edgar Allen Poe died mysteriously after having been missing for six days. Though still alive when he was finally found, he was wearing someone else’s cheap clothes and not coherent enough to tell where he’d been. He had disappeared en route to his own wedding.

mxm9Y TIL that scientists have created genetically modified goats that create spider silk in their milk. Large quantities of spider silk can be farmed for use in such applications as replacement ligaments and bullet proof vests.

l7aD7 TIL that the okapi or forest giraffe or zebra giraffe or Congo giraffe is the only species in the genus Okapia and the okapi and the giraffe are the only living members of the family Giraffidae.

JmKl TIL 1 in 4 children born on the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation is born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Bra0x TIL the phrase "Low Man on the Totem Pole" has come to mean the opposite of what it should; the "Low Man" on the totem pole was often the most talented and valuable part of the totem pole creation process.