Post * W7WRA — Curious Curator

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TIL that starting in the 1700s, travelers routinely wore fabric belts to prevent disease by keeping their stomachs warm. Later called “cholera belts”, this practice continued through WW1, long after the bacterial origin of cholera was discovered in the 1850s.

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NBQP TIL a pack of man-eating wolves ate 40 people in Paris in 1450 before finally being defeated by citizens on the steps of Notre Dame. The leader of the pack was named Courtaud.

oo1L TIL at Warped Tour concert venues, parents accompanying their children are admitted free of charge and can spend the day waiting for their children at the “Reverse Day Care” tent.

Z8pB TIL That Aleister Crowley, a ceremonial magician and founder of his own occultist religion, was voted the 73rd greatest Briton of all time

yVM5M TIL that there has only ever been one Black Woman elected to Congress as a Republican, that too as recently as 2015 while only serving until 2019.

ne98P TIL black people are less likely to know how to swim due, in part, to historic bans on black people swimming in public pools. In 1964, a motel manager poured acid in the pool to scare away black swimmers who were staging a "swim in."