Post * On9Y — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jackie Kennedy called Martin Luther King jr a “terrible man” and claimed he was drunk at JFK’s funeral

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80jX TIL the first commercially successful typewriter was built by an arms manufacturer and looked like a sewing machine

QN8R9 TIL that in the 1950's, an air cushioned vehicle was invented by a doctor named William Bertelsen from his garage

EgrMx TIL There's such a thing as "Winter Bees"

XQN6 TIL of a tree native to Mexico with the common name “Gringo Tree” named so because it’s skin bark starts off white, turns red, and then flakes off much like tourists that visit the country.

JPm4 TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.