Post * P1lYV — Curious Curator

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TIL 88% of households in America have air conditioning while only 20% do in Europe

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AD6lg TIL White Clover can be used as a tobacco alternative

Bgmve TIL about the NAWPA, an old plan to divert water from Alaska to the Contiguous US using up to 800 km long reservoirs in Canada that would have flooded large towns and vast salmon habitat

wo6Y6 TIL that the first recorded separation of conjoined twins took place in the Byzantine Empire in the 900s. One of the twins was already dead, and the other lived for three days after separation. The next recorded separation is several centuries later, in 1689, by Johannes Fatio.

pDZ4 TIL that the United States and New Zealand are the only countries on earth which allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise to the public.

b68V7 TIL Wilbur and Orville were not the only Wright Brothers. There were five brothers and two sisters (including a twin boy and girl who died in infancy). Katharine promoted the Wright's work in Europe and marched in a women's suffrage parade with her elderly father and two of her surviving brothers.