Post * Wkee4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Samoset ( 1590–1653) was an Abenaki sagamore & the first American Indian to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. He startled the colonists on March 16, 1621 by walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting them in English, which he had begun to learn from fishermen from Maine,

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KYooa TIL Japanese eels, even the farm-raised ones, are spawn in the waters off the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean

JYOXV TIL of the Spotlight Effect, a psychological phenomenon where everyone is the center of their own universe, and has a microscope only on their own faults and mistakes. This results in others never even noticing nor remembering what we later regret doing or saying bc they only see their own mistakes.

XZ8E TIL Terry Jones of Monty Python purchased the “Flying Circus” tapes mere weeks before the BBC was scheduled to wipe them in the 1970’s along with countless other TV shows now lost.

awm59 TIL of Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome, where people even think they are pregnant with puppies after being bitten by a dog. Victims are said to bark like dogs and men think they will give birth to their puppies through the penis.

b6kjZ TIL in 1896, New York passed the Raines law to reduce Sunday drinking. The law had a loophole that allowed bars to serve alcohol only with a meal. To circumvent this, staff added a sandwich to every drink order, then took it away and served it to the next customer. The sandwich often lasted all day.