Post * JYAXQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that the oysters in Chesapeake Bay used to be able to filter the entire volume of water in 3 days. This process now takes nearly a year.

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kQ91 TIL that almost 50% of Niger’s population is 15 years old or younger, and 8% of its population (800,000) lives in slavery.

Xy9k TIL Steve Harvey once gave a winning Family Feud contestant an additional $25k of his own money after later finding out the contestant was terminally ill and doing everything he could to support his family

ADWan TIL That when your stomach growls it's just your intestines moving food normally, and usually the growl is covered up by food in the stomach

gMM9W TiL about General Walton Walker who commanded in WW1-2 and Korea. He served directly under General George Patton who died from an accident involving his staff car. Walker later commanded an Army of his own in Korea but later also died from an accident involving his staff car.

v1nV7 TIL that in order to build one of the largest dams east of the Mississippi, the US forcibly displaced at least 600 Native American families from their homes, and then built on the fertile “reservation” land.