Post * VBRwm — Curious Curator

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TIL that 73% of Americans die in debt with an average of $62000 per person.

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kOJg1 TIL that urine is not sterile, it is a common myth that it is sterile

9YvJp TIL Faulty coffee machines are one of the most common causes of flight delays.

DLDv TIL Stop signs originated in Michigan in 1915. The first ones had black lettering on a white background and were 24 by 24 inches, somewhat smaller than the current sign.

W7XON TIL of the pen-tailed treeshrew , a tiny arboreal animal that subsists largely on the nectar of the bertam palm, one of the most potent naturally occurring alcohols on earth at 3.8% abv. Despite their diet consisting almost entirely of alcohol, they do not appear to get drunk.

b688p TIL Manet’s (the famous French painter) mother was the goddaughter of the King Charles XIV John of Sweden.