Post * W7JG8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Plastic trash bags weren't widely available until the late 1960s. The drawstring was introduced in 1984.

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x6OVw TIL that Duck Billed Platypus has no nipples to feed their offspring. Milk oozes from the skin of mother Platypus as a means to feed her offspring.

rNWnd TIL why the pool tables in Michael Jackson's Beat It video have no pockets. It's because the tables shown are used for a pocketless game called carom billiards.

KEe4 TIL the musician Moby is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick

e0ZgL TIL The false rumor of Joseph Kennedy being a bootlegger didn’t surface until the late 1960s when conspiracy theorists were looking for reasons why organized crime may have played a role in the assassination of JFK.

kOQ4d TIL in mid 18th century Gross National Income per capita (PPP) of countries that today make up third world (Asia, Africa, Latin America) was more than first world (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan, Singapore and South Korea)