Post * JNOB — Curious Curator

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TIL the more likely a man can grow a beard, the greater the risk he will go bald.

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BNb TIL that animals can have accents too

4XjWw TIL that a box of negatives discovered by Dutch history buff Jo Teeuwisse at an Amsterdam flea market more than 10 years back led to a one-of-a-kind project where dramatic photo manipulations put WW2 American soldiers in the exact same spots — in modern-day.

JP7v TIL only 200 people have passed the three day master sommelier diploma exam over 40 years, making it the hardest test in the world.

mxVoY TIL about James Reavis, also known as "The Baron of Arizona," who almost swindled the U.S. government out of the entirety of Arizona. He forged numerous papers in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. to prove that he "inherited" the land from a fictional family

9ZYX TIL that Buffalo Hump wasn’t the Comanche war chief’s real name. Americans refused to call him by his actual name which actually meant something along the lines of “erection that won’t go down.”