Post * J1Mo8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Brides used to remove their entire teeth on their wedding days as a wedding gift.

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pYwge TIL that the male satin bowerbird only gets its characteristic blue colour at about eight to nine years. Satin bowerbirds live to for about eight to nine years in the wild.

D1dGJ TIL During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. Manufacturers got wind of their bags’ other uses and began decorating them. Color and patterns added a little style and joy to the common sack dress.

DMAg TIL the first US Warship to be named after a black man was named in 1943 for sailor Leonard Roy Harmon. Harmon worked serving food to officers, one of the few jobs available to black sailors. At the battle of Guadalcanal, however, Harmon deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to save a shipmate.

kJ904 TIL that stuntwoman Gladys Roy danced the Charleston perched atop the wing of a biplane, and walked across blindfolded. Her most impressive stunt however, was playing Tennis (or pretending to) with Ivan Unger on the wing of a biplane in flight.

w1w1 TIL that the Superbowls are havens for sex trafficking.