Post * KQ76 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Japan was almost completely isolated from the outside world for over 200 years between the 17th and 19th centuries due to a policy called “Sakoku”. No foreigner could enter and no Japanese could leave the country under penalty of death.

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BrjJk TIL that after 360 years in Africa, 96.3% of Afrikaner DNA is still European

xyGb TIL 14.5% of Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, believes HIV is spread through witchcraft

8O1X TIL a Cleveland woman who was arrested for a traffic infraction was ordered to stand on a corner during rush hour for two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.”

R0YQ TIL If African elephants become extinct, the savannah will become woodland

kO5QB TIL Aztlán is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Nahuatl legends relate that seven tribes lived in Chicomoztoc, or "the place of the seven caves". Each cave represented a different Nahua group, each of the seven groups is credited with founding a different major city-state in Central Mexico.