Post * P1nbn — Curious Curator

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TIL of the more than 43,000 different species of spiders found in the world, less than 30 have been responsible for human deaths.

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R7W97 TIL about "Milk Sickness" which affects people who drink milk from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant. While rare today, it used to kill thousands of Midwestern migrants who were unfamiliar with it, including Abraham Lincoln's mother.

LkoMV TIL Occupy Wall Street was Infiltrated by the US Gov't and Dismantled from Within

VMv4Q TIL that Henry Ford probably never said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - but his tone-deafness to customers' needs in the 1920s, when GM was producing numerous models to Ford's single Model T, caused Ford's market share to drop from 70% to 15% in 6 years

rVL0 TIL When twister was introduced in 1966,it was denounced by critics as"sex in a box"

9Y5RM TIL Adam Rainer was the only person to ever have both dwarfism and gigantism. At age 18 he measured (4ft 6in) and reached a height of (7ft 8in) by age 51.