Post * M7Rjb — Curious Curator

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TIL that the average time between recessions has grown from about 2 years in the late 1800s to 5 years in the early 20th century to 8 years over the last half-century.

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E1g9d TIL the top part of a bottle which you drink from is called the Bore

m9Rv TIL the Pan-American Highway doesn’t actually connect North America and South America, there is a 100 mile gap of swampland and forest between Panama and Colombia with no roads, inhabited by drug runners

9w7QG TIL Adolf Hitler was worried Kilroy was the codename of a high-level Allied spy & Stalin was terrified when he found "Kilroy was here" written in the VIP bathroom. The first modern instance of a meme as counter intelligence.

mX8Y TIL - Somebody designed a candle that recycles itself

WkEB8 TIL that in the 17th century, choir boys as young as eight years old would be castrated in order to preserve their pre-pubescent "angel voices"